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...Geometric Abstraction: Art of the Patricia Phelps di Cisneros Collection” put the spotlight on artists working in the Americas, and three current exhibitions at the Fogg—including “You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidib??,” “Marking Places: Spatial Effects of African Art” and “Beyond Decorum: the Photography of Iké Udé”—celebrate African...
...Look Beautiful Like That” showcases the work of two contemporary photographers from Mali, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidib??. 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...
...Africans love photography. It is the very emblem of the self. People want to preserve themselves, their faces...” Sidib?? said in the Fogg’s exhibition notes. “The camera functions like a mirror in a way; it proves ones existence, or at least a part of one’s existence, and leaves you with a permanent taste...
...Sidib??’s portraits tend to be more playful, as shown by “Je voudrais bien voit ma jupe,” (“I would like you to see my skirt”), a portrait that shows a small girl wearing only a new white skirt. And in the 1968 “Amis des espagnoles”, “Friends of the Spanish,” four male teenagers don sombreros, over-sized sunglasses and smirks to create a photograph oozing with campy, self-conscious cool...