Sanlé Sory (1943–2023) - Couple sur la moto - (Signé à la main et tamponée au dos)
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Photograph by Sory Sanlé titled Couple sur la moto, a gelatin silver print, 30 × 24 cm, signed and stamped on the back, a portrait in Excellent condition, sold by Galerie.
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Sory Sanlé is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Upper Volta.
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrives in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957. Having become a journalist and photographer, he also does illustration for record covers.
He opens his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gains independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and photographs of road accidents for the local police.
Rapidly, he attains fame in Bobo-Dioulasso, which at the time was the cultural and economic capital of the former Upper Volta, and where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came to “have their portraits taken.”
Completed between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a recovered freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence like no other.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art ?, FRAC 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 (Galerie Art-Z, Paris), signed by the photographer.
Seller's Story
Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
Translated by Google TranslateSory Sanlé is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Upper Volta.
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrives in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957. Having become a journalist and photographer, he also does illustration for record covers.
He opens his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gains independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and photographs of road accidents for the local police.
Rapidly, he attains fame in Bobo-Dioulasso, which at the time was the cultural and economic capital of the former Upper Volta, and where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came to “have their portraits taken.”
Completed between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a recovered freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence like no other.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art ?, FRAC 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 (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
Couple sur la moto - (Signé à la main et tamponée au dos)
Condition
Fine
Technique
Gelatin-silver print
Height
30 cm
Width
24 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Portrait
