Sanlé Sory (1943–2023) - Funki Man - 1974
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Sory Sanlé's Funki Man - 1974, a 50 × 40 cm gelatin silver bromide print dating from 1974, hand-signed and in SUP condition.
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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 creates sleeve illustrations for records.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gained independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking ID photos and photographs of road accidents for the local police.
Rapidly, he gains notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which was then the cultural and economic capital of the former Haute-Volta, and where young Africans “hungry for modernity” come to “have their portrait taken.”
Completed between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a unique social and cultural effervescence.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in 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.
Photograph accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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 creates sleeve illustrations for records.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gained independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking ID photos and photographs of road accidents for the local police.
Rapidly, he gains notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which was then the cultural and economic capital of the former Haute-Volta, and where young Africans “hungry for modernity” come to “have their portrait taken.”
Completed between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a unique social and cultural effervescence.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in 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.
Photograph accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Seller's Story
Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
Translated by Google TranslateDetails
Date of print
1974
Artist
Sanlé Sory (1943–2023)
Sold by
Gallery
Title of artwork
Funki Man - 1974
Condition
Extremely fine
Technique
Gelatin-silver print
Height
50 cm
Width
40 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Portrait
