Photographer: Sidibé, Malick (1936 – 2016).
Title: Couple d'Amoureux.
Date: 1970.
Country: Mali.
Medium: unmounted gelatin silver print.
Size: 9,0 x 5,6 cm.
Condition: good (paper residues on the reverse side).
Reference: MSV0116/2.
Provenance: Olivier Sultan, Galerie ART-Z, Paris.
Extra: Studio Malick stamp on the reverse side.
Malick Sidibé was born in Soloba, a Fulani village in Mali and is world-famous for his black-and-white photography of popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s in Bamako, the capital of Mali.
His photographs are a fantastic chronicle of the unrestrained optimism and joie de vivre of the Malian youth in Bamako after independence.