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SIDIBE, Malick. Chemises.

(Göttingen): Steidl, 2007. First edition. 4to. Afterword by Jerome Sother. Fantastic volume documenting, the youth culture of Bamako, the capital of Mali in the sixties and early seventies.  Sidibé would capture Bamako’s youth in a close-up snapshot style that conveys the joyful conviviality of this era, and the blending of African and western cultures in dances like the Mali Twist, and in curious combinations of traditional and European clothing. Sidibé would then display his carefully numbered index prints, glued onto administrative folders, on his studio walls for customers–usually the subjects of his photographs–to peruse. These are the “chemises” of this book’s title.  This a near fine copy in wrappers. 

$120.00