Malick SIDIBÉ (1936-2016). End of course ball 25-4-68 (eveni - Lot 398

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Malick SIDIBÉ (1936-2016). End of course ball 25-4-68 (eveni - Lot 398
Malick SIDIBÉ (1936-2016). End of course ball 25-4-68 (evenings of youth meetings in Bamako). Exceptional set of twenty-six period silver prints mounted on two cardboard pages (annotated notebook). Numbers in ink under visuals. Average visual format about 8 x 5.5 cm; Mounting format 52 x 35.5 cm. Provenance: Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris. This kosher, this presented work is unique. Each notebook was Malick Sidibé's personal work for the print order. Each notebook is unique. Many images from these "works" do not exist in any other form, because these prints were not ordered and the negatives often disappeared. These notebooks offer a unique insight into social life in Bamako, Mali, in the 1960s and 1970s. Similar notebooks are in the collections of the Musée du Centre Pompidou in Paris and WOAgri in New York. Malick would make one or more notebooks overnight before returning to the laboratory to develop the negatives and display index prints on the studio walls, which were carefully numbered and pasted into administrative files. On the following days, the partygoers would come to look at these files and select the photographs they wanted to buy. Born in 1936 in Soloba, Mali. Died in Bamako in April 2016. The first known works of Malick Sidibé are the shots taken at parties organised by young people who were passionate about music and freedom as the country prepared for independence. In 1962, he opened the "Malick Studio" in Bamako. Studio portraits are the main part of his work. People came from everywhere to be photographed. He made a name for himself at the first "Rencontres de la Photographie" in Bamako and then exhibited at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and in the world's largest galleries and museums. He was awarded the Hasselblad prize in 2003 and the Golden Lion in Venice in 2007. Biblio : Malick Sidibé, Perception, Plouha, Ed. Gwin Zegal, 2008. Malick Sidibé, Ma
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