AU VILLAGE - Malick Sidibé

21 x 24 cm / 96 pages / November 2011  

isbn: 9782351371329

Text (in French ony): Brigitte Ollier

Also available in limited edition

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Everyone is familiar with Malick Sidibé's studio portraits, his consummate art of combining a face, the position of a body, a costume and a setting. We also know Malick Sidibé as the photographer of youth and the nights of post-independence Bamako. But, like all artists, Malick Sidibé cultivates a secret garden at the heart of his work.For more than 40 years, he has regularly photographed his home village of Soloba, becoming its ethnologist and sociologist through images. This work, as meticulously documented as it is remarkably photographed, always with the same attention to detail, is an extraordinary testimony to rural life in Mali and its evolution over several decades.