AU VILLAGE - Malick Sidibé - Limited edition

Limited edition of 100 copies, boxed, with a choice of 1 of 4 prints.
Each book (special cover) is signed and numbered from 1 to 100.
Each print is signed and numbered from 1 to 25
Text by Brigitte Ollier (in French only) / 21 x 24 cm / 96 pages
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Everyone knows Malick Sidibé's studio portraits, his consummate art of marrying face, body position, costume and setting. We also know Malick Sidibé as the photographer of youth and of post-independence Bamako nights. But, like all artists, Malick Sidibé cultivates a secret garden at the heart of his work.For over 40 years, he has regularly photographed his home village of Soloba, becoming its ethnologist and sociologist through images. This work, as meticulously documented as it is remarkably photographed with the same attention to detail, is an extraordinary testimony to rural life in Mali and its evolution over several decades.