Seydou Keïta

Seydou Keïta
Bamako (en) , 1923
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	Mali
Kpibu shee	Paris, Silimin gɔli November 22, 2001
Education
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For the footballer, see Seydou Keita.

Seydou Keïta (1921/23 – 21 November 2001) daa nyɛla Mali nira ŋun yaari anfooninima ka niriba mi o zaŋ chaŋ niriba mini o daŋ anfooninima yaabu polo o anfooninima yaabu tuma duu din be Mali tinzuɣu ni, Bamako, yuma din gbaai 1950s. O tuma nyɛla din ka mali ko, amaa nuuni tuunbaŋsim luɣa pam.

Kpibu

Keïta daa kpila Anashara goli 21 November 2001, Paris.

Publications

• 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
• Seydou Keita: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963. Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. ISBN 978-3-86930-301-7.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2001: Flash Afrique, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria & Düsseldorf Cultural Forum, Germany
• 2011: Seydou Keïta, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
• 2018: Bamako Portraits, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Group exhibitions

• 1996: African Photographers, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
• 2005: African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection. Date open to public: 1/29/2005. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA.
• 2006: About Africa, part one, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
• 2006: Some Tribes, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2006: Vive l'Afrique, Galerie du Jour – Agnès b., Tokyo, Japan
• 2006: 100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
• 2007: Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
• 2008: Accrochage, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
• 2009: Masters of Photography, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
• 2015: The Pistil's Waltz, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium

Collections

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

• The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: 8 items
• Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri: 2 items
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota: 6 items
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York: 10 items
• University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois: 5 items

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

External links

• Official website
• Interviews with Seydou Keïta and Françoise Huguier.
• Seydou Keïta. Contemporary African Art Collection (C.A.A.C.) / The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art. “Seydou Keïta is unanimously regarded today as the most famous African studio photographer of the 20th century. Discovered in the West in the early 1990s, his work, composed essentially of black and white portraits made in his studio in Bamako from 1948 to 1962, has since been exhibited in major museums and written about in numerous publications.”
• Seydou Keïta Untitled 29/04/2011 11/06/2011.
• 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. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/arts/22rips.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all.
• Tɛmplet:YouTube Video duration 1m 33s. Uploader London Review of Books 2016.