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- Lot 75
Malick SIDIBÉ (1936-2016). End of course ball 25-4-68 (evenings of youth meetings in Bamako). Exceptional set of twenty-six silver prints laminated on two cardboard pages (annotated notebook). Numbers in ink under visuals. Average visual size about 8 x 5,5 cm ; Mounting size 52 x 35,5 cm. Provenance: Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris. This cachier, this work presented is unique. Each notebook was the personal work of Malick Sidibé for the order of prints. Each notebook is unique. Many of the images from these "works" do not exist in any other form, as the prints were not commissioned and the negatives often disappeared. These notebooks offer a unique glimpse into the social life of Bamako, Mali in the 1960s and 1970s. Similar notebooks are in the collections of the Centre Pompidou Museum in Paris and the MOMA in New York. Malick would make one or more notebooks in one night before returning to the lab to develop the negatives and post index prints on the studio walls that were carefully numbered and pasted into administrative folders. Over the next few days, partygoers would come to look at these folders and select the photos they wanted to buy. Born in 1936 in Soloba, Mali. Died in Bamako in April 2016. Malick Sidibé's earliest known works are the shots taken at parties organized by young people passionate about music and freedom as the country prepared for independence. In 1962, he opened the "Malick Studio" in Bamako. Studio portraits were the main part of his work. People came from all over to have their picture taken. He was noticed at the first Rencontres de la Photographie in Bamako, then he exhibited at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and in the biggest galleries and museums in the world. He received the Hasselblad prize in 2003 and the Golden Lion in Venice in 2007. Biblio :  Malick Sidibé, Perception, Plouha, Éd. Gwin Zegal, 2008. Malick Sidibé, Mali Twist, Exhibition Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 20 October 2017 to 25 February 2018, Éd. Xavier Barral, 2017. Malick Sidibé, Photographies de la vie bamakoise de 1960 à aujourd'hui , Exhibition Musée Pincé, Angers, 21 February to 11 May 2003, 2003. Malick Sidibé, Au village, Éd. de l'Oeil, 2011. André MAGNIN, Malick Sidibé, Scalo, 1998. Laura SERANI, Malick Sidibé, Actes Sud, 2013.
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