Malick Sidibe - Chemises - 2008

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition by the artist at "Foam_Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam" and at "Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.

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"Malick Sidibé has gained an international reputation for his documentation of an important aspect of the history of Mali...Sidibé sometimes photographed five reports in one night before returning to the lab to develop the negatives. He would then display on the studio walls carefully numbered index prints which were glued on administrative folders. These are the “chemises” reproduced in this book. In the following days, the party people came to look at the folders and select the photos that they wanted to buy. The folders reproduced in this book constitute a significant catalogue of Sidibé’s work. Progressively, in the mid-seventies, youths met less frequently at clubs and went more often to night clubs which were not Malick’s haunts. He therefore shifted his activity to studio portraits and camera repairs."
(from the publisher)

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Steidl, Göttingen. GwinZegal. 2008. First edition, first printing.

Softcover (as issued). 240 x 320 mm. 168 pages. Photos: Malick Sidibé. Book design: Jérôme Sother and Claas Möller. Scans by Steidl. Picture editing: Inès Schumann, Reiner Motz, Klaus Breyer. Production and printing: Steidl,, Göttingen. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside excellent, very fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside quite fresh, little trace of use; rest of former price sticker at the bottom right corner of the rear side, small flaw/restoration at the top of the spine. Overall fine condition.

Great, very sought-after publication by Malick Sidibé.