Name Seydou Keita Role Photographer | Books Seydou Keita | |
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Died November 21, 2001, Paris, France | ||
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Seydou Keïta (1921 — 21 November 2001) was a Malian photographer. He is mostly known for his portraits of people and families he took between 1940 and the early 1960s and that are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art.
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- Souvenirs de seydou keita 4 5 seydou keita photographe francais english
- Souvenirs de seydou keita 2 5 seydou le photographe francais english
- Biography
- Publications by Keta
- Solo
- Group
- References
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Biography
Keïta was born in 1921 in Bamako, Mali, although the exact date is unknown. He was the oldest in a family of five children. His father Bâ Tièkòró and his uncle Tièmòkò were furniture makers. Keïta developed an interest in photography when his uncle gave him a Kodak Brownie with a film with eight shots in 1935, after returning from a trip to Senegal. In the beginning Keïta worked as both a carpenter and photographer, taking first portraits of his family and friends, later of people in the neighborhood. He learned photography and how to develop from Pierre Garnier, a French photographic supply store owner, and from Mountaga Traoré, his mentor. In 1948 he set up his first studio in the family house in Bamako-Koura behind the main prison.
Keïta died in 2001 in Paris.
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