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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Look Beautiful Like That” showcases the work of two contemporary photographers from Mali, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé. Both photographers??who have lived and worked in Bamako, the capital of Mali, since the early 1950s—began their work with six by nine cm Kodak Brownie cameras. Soon they each had their own commercial photography studios in Bamako, eventually producing tens of thousands of portraits for members of Bamako’s elite...
...strongest points of this exhibition is unfortunately hidden at the back of the show. 14 smaller postcards and photographs from the early twentieth-century—by both European and African photographers??offer a contextualization for Kïeta and Sidibé’s photographs. One of the most striking postcards is internally labeled “Young Arab Woman from Timbuktu,” showing a photograph of two topless women reclining in the pose of an odalisque. The photograph was taken by Francois-Edmund Fortier in 1905, and is quite obviously an example...
Although the subjects of the photographs are predominantly white, this cultural monochrome is punctuated by photographs of a black boy shining a white man’s shoes, images of an African American wedding, white men in blackface, white girls dressed up as Native Americans. Although the photographers?? aims were not to capture images of racism, a quotation by James Baldwin reveals the racism that was deeply ingrained in American society. Photographs of poverty, slums, traffic and over-crowding reveal the negative effects of economic expansion...