Sanlé Sory (1943–2023) - Les quatres soeurs
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Description from the seller
Stamped and signed.
Sory Sanlé is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Upper Volta.
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrived in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957.
Having become a journalist and photographer, he also produced illustrations for album covers.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gained independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and road-accident photographs for the local police.
Quickly, he rises to prominence in Bobo-Dioulasso, which at the time was the cultural and economic capital of the former Upper Volta, where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came “to have their portraits taken.”
Created between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence unique to its kind.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art ?, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of Bordeaux.
2015: Encountering African Photography, Mérignac Media Library.
2018: Retrospective, Art Institute of Chicago.
2020: Tête à Têtes - West African Portraiture from Independence into the 21st Century, David Hill Gallery, London.
2020: Bobo Yéyé, Sanlé Sory, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse.
Photographs accompanied by a certificate of authenticity (Galerie Art-Z, Paris), signed by the photographer.
Seller's Story
Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
Translated by Google TranslateStamped and signed.
Sory Sanlé is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Upper Volta.
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrived in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957.
Having become a journalist and photographer, he also produced illustrations for album covers.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gained independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and road-accident photographs for the local police.
Quickly, he rises to prominence in Bobo-Dioulasso, which at the time was the cultural and economic capital of the former Upper Volta, where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came “to have their portraits taken.”
Created between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence unique to its kind.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art ?, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of Bordeaux.
2015: Encountering African Photography, Mérignac Media Library.
2018: Retrospective, Art Institute of Chicago.
2020: Tête à Têtes - West African Portraiture from Independence into the 21st Century, David Hill Gallery, London.
2020: Bobo Yéyé, Sanlé Sory, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse.
Photographs accompanied by a certificate of authenticity (Galerie Art-Z, Paris), signed by the photographer.
Seller's Story
Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
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Artist
Sanlé Sory (1943–2023)
Sold by
Gallery
Title of artwork
Les quatres soeurs
Condition
Fine
Technique
Gelatin-silver print
Height
40 cm
Width
30 cm
Signature
Stamped
Genre
Portrait
