Sanlé Sory (1943–2023) - Bintou avec ses lunettes - 1975
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Sory Sanlé, Bintou with her glasses, 1975, gelatin silver print, 40 × 30 cm, signed by hand, in superb 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 worked on illustrations for record sleeves.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gained independence. He bought a Rolleiflex 6×6, and began by taking identity photographs and road-accident photographs for the local police.
Soon he achieved notoriety 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 portrait taken.”
Produced between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence unique in its kind.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art, Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Bordeaux.
2015: À la rencontre de la photographie africaine, Médiathèque de Mérignac.
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.
Photography 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 worked on illustrations for record sleeves.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gained independence. He bought a Rolleiflex 6×6, and began by taking identity photographs and road-accident photographs for the local police.
Soon he achieved notoriety 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 portrait taken.”
Produced between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence unique in its kind.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art, Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Bordeaux.
2015: À la rencontre de la photographie africaine, Médiathèque de Mérignac.
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.
Photography accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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
