Seydou Keïta

Seydou Keïta (1921 — 21 November 2001) was a Malian photographer. He is mostly known for his portraits of people and families he took between 1940 and the early 1960s and that are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art.

Biography

Keïta was born in 1921 in Bamako, Mali, although the exact date is unknown. He was the oldest in a family of five children. His father Bâ Tièkòró and his uncle Tièmòkò were furniture makers. Keïta developed an interest in photography when his uncle gave him a Kodak Brownie with a film with eight shots in 1935, after returning from a trip to Senegal. In the beginning Keïta worked as both a carpenter and photographer, taking first portraits of his family and friends, later of people in the neighborhood. He learned photography and how to develop from Pierre Garnier, a French photographic supply store owner, and from Mountaga Traoré, his mentor. In 1948 he set up his first studio in the family house in Bamako-Koura behind the main prison.[1]

Keïta died in 2001 in Paris.

Publication by Keïta

  • Seydou Keita: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963. Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. ISBN 978-3869303017.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 1996: African Photographers, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA[5]
  • 2005: African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA[6]
  • 2006: About Africa, part one, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium[7]
  • 2006: Some Tribes, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland[8]
  • 2006: Vive l’Afrique, Galerie du Jour – Agnès b., Tokyo, Japan[9]
  • 2006: 100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain[10]
  • 2007: Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy[11]
  • 2008: Accrochage, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium[12]
  • 2009: Masters of Photography, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium[13]
  • 2015: The Pistil's Waltz, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium[14]

Collection

Keita's work is held in the following permanent collection:

Further reading

  • Bell, Clare. In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 24-September 29, 1996. New York, N.Y: Guggenheim Museum, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6895-9
  • Enwezor, Okwui, and Gabriele Conrath-Scholl. Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection: Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity. Burlafingen: The Walther Collection, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86930-157-0
  • Keïta, Seydou. Photographs, Bamako, Mali, 1948-1963. Steidl / Edition7L, 2011. ISBN 978-3-86930-301-7
  • Keïta, Seydou, André Magnin, and Youssouf Cissé. Seydou Keïta. Zurich: Scalo, 1997. ISBN 3-931141-46-2
  • Lamunière, Michelle, Seydou Keita, and Malick Sidibé. You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé. Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums, 2001. ISBN 1-891771-20-5

References

  1. ↑ Magnin, André; Cissé, Youssouf Tata (1997). André Magnin, ed. Seydou Keïta. Scalo Publishers. ISBN 3-931141-46-2.
  2. ↑ "Home". kunsthallewien.at. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery - Artists". www.gallery51.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Seydou Keïta - Bamako Portraits". Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  5. ↑ "In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present". 16 January 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. ↑ http://prv.mfah.org/archives/search.asp?par1=3&showid=2195&extitle=African+Art+Now%3A+Masterpieces+from+the+Jean+Pigozzi+Collection&exartist=&syear=&eyear=&cPg=1
  7. ↑ "FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery - Exhib. Fifty One - past". gallery51.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Some Tribes". Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  9. ↑ http://www.galeriedujour.com/expositions/0231_vivelafrique/afrique.jpg
  10. ↑ "100% Africa - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao". Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  11. ↑ "Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli WHY AFRICA?". www.pinacoteca-agnelli.it. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  12. ↑ "FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery - Exhib. Fifty One - past". gallery51.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  13. ↑ "FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery - Exhib. Fifty One - current". www.gallery51.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  14. ↑ "FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery - Exhib. Fifty One - past". gallery51.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  15. ↑ "Untitled, #162" Saint Louis Art Museum. Accessed 20 June 2017
  16. ↑ "Untitled, #58" Saint Louis Art Museum. Accessed 20 June 2017
  17. ↑ "Seydou Keïta | Minneapolis Institute of Art". Retrieved 2018-01-10.
  • Official website
  • Interviews with Seydou Keïta and Françoise Huguier at the Wayback Machine (archived February 9, 1997).
  • Seydou Keita: Contemporary African Art Collection.
  • Sedyou Keita at Gallery51.
  • The Ghosts of Seydou Keita: Audio Slideshow from the New York Times.
  • Michael Rips (22 January 2006). "Who Owns Seydou Keïta?". The New York Times.
  • "Seydou Keïta: The Theatre of Aspiration, with Jeremy Harding". London Review of Books (LRB).
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