Sanlé Sory (1943–2023) - Bintou avec ses lunettes - 1975
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Photograph by Sory Sanlé (Burkinabé), titled Bintou avec ses lunettes, 1975; a gelatin-silver print, 40 × 30 cm, signed, in SUP condition, portrait, sold by Galerie.
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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 did the sleeve illustrations for records.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country was gaining independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and road accident photos for the local police.
Quickly, he achieves notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which was then the cultural and economic capital of the former Haute-Volta, where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came to “have their portrait taken.”
Executed 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: Folk African Art, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of Bordeaux.
2015: Meeting 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 accompanying an authenticity certificate.
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 did the sleeve illustrations for records.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country was gaining independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and road accident photos for the local police.
Quickly, he achieves notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which was then the cultural and economic capital of the former Haute-Volta, where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came to “have their portrait taken.”
Executed 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: Folk African Art, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of Bordeaux.
2015: Meeting 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 accompanying an authenticity certificate.
Seller's Story
Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
Translated by Google TranslateDetails
Date of print
1975
Artist
Sanlé Sory (1943–2023)
Sold by
Gallery
Title of artwork
Bintou avec ses lunettes - 1975
Condition
Extremely fine
Technique
Gelatin-silver print
Height
40 cm
Width
30 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Portrait
