{{Short description|Malian photographer (1935–2016)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox photographer | name = Malick Sidibé | image = Photo of Malick Sidibé.jpg | alt = The image features Malick Sidibé, a celebrated Malian photographer | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1935}} | birth_place = Soloba, Mali | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2016|4|14|1935}} | death_place = Bamako, Mali | citizenship = Mali | alma_mater = {{nowrap|Institut National des Arts de Bamako}} | occupation = Photographer | awards = Hasselblad Award<br/>Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement<br/> }}
'''Malick Sidibé''' (1935 – 14 April 2016)<ref name="groves-guardian"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lequotidiendelart.com/quotidien_articles_detail.php?idarticle=8967|title=Disparition du photographe malien Malick Sidibé par Le Quotidien de l'Art|website=Le Quotidien de l'Art|date= 15 April 2016|access-date=2016-04-14}}</ref> was a Malian photographer from a Fulani (Fula) village in Soloba,<ref>{{cite web |title=Malick Sidibe {{!}} Biography & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Malick-Sidibe |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Malick Sidibé |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/malick-sidibe |publisher=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation}}</ref> who was noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako, Mali.<ref name="groves-guardian">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/15/malick-sidibe-dies-aged-80-malian-photographer-eye-of-bamako | date = 15 April 2016 | access-date = 16 April 2016 | first = Nancy | last = Groves | work = The Guardian | location = London | title = Malian photographer Malick Sidibé dies aged 80}}</ref><ref name="shakur-nyt">{{cite news | url = http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/malick-sidib-creative-force-of-african-culture/?_r=0 | date = 11 April 2016 | access-date = 16 April 2016 | first = Fayemi | last = Shakur | newspaper = The New York Times | title = Malick Sidibé: Creative Force of African Culture}}</ref><ref name="laurent-time">{{cite news | url = https://time.com/4295775/in-memoriam-malick-sidibe-1936-2016/ | date = 15 April 2016 | access-date = 16 April 2016 | first = Olivier | last = Laurent | work = Time | title = In Memoriam: Malick Sidibé (1936 – 2016)}}</ref> Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, and was a well-known figure in his community. In 1994 he had his first exhibition outside of Mali and received much critical praise for his carefully composed portraits. Sidibé's work has since become well known and renowned on a global scale.<ref name="Midnight in Bamako">Touré, A. Chab (26 August 2016), [https://aperture.org/blog/midnight-bamako/ "Midnight in Bamako: In search of the late Malick Sidibé and the rhythmic roots of his legendary photographs"], ''Aperture'', Issue 224.</ref> His work was the subject of a number of publications and exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. In 2007, he received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale,<ref name="gelder-nytimes">Van Gelder, Lawrence (11 June 2007), [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/arts/11arts.html "Malian Photographer Honored at Biennale"], ''The New York Times''.</ref> becoming both the first photographer<ref name="laurent-time"/> and the first African so recognized.<ref name="BBC-obit">BBC Staff (15 April 2016). {{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36055060|title=Mali's pioneering photographer Malick Sidibe dies|publisher=BBC News}}</ref> Other awards he has received include a Hasselblad Award for photography in 2003,<ref name="hasselblad-foundation">{{cite web | url = http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/wp/hasselblad-priset-2/previous-award-winners/ | access-date = 15 April 2016 | publisher = Hasselblad Foundation | title = Previous Award Winners | archive-date = 2 September 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160902061553/http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/wp/hasselblad-priset-2/previous-award-winners/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> an International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008),<ref name="lensculture">{{cite web|url=https://www.lensculture.com/articles/malick-sidibe-interview-with-malick-sidibe|title=Interview with Malick Sidibé |work=LensCulture|date=2008}}</ref> and a World Press Photo award (2010).<ref name="world-press-photo-2010">{{cite web| url = http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2010/arts-and-entertainment/malick-sidib%C3%A9| access-date = 16 April 2016| publisher = World Press Photo| title = Arts and Entertainment, first prize singles| archive-date = 19 April 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160419192901/http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2010/arts-and-entertainment/malick-sidib%C3%A9| url-status = dead}}</ref>
Sidibé's work is held in the collections of The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC),<ref name="caac">{{cite web | url = http://www.caacart.com/pigozzi-artist.php?i=Sidibe-Malick&m=48 | access-date = 16 April 2016 | publisher = The Contemporary African Art Collection | title = Malick Sidibé | archive-date = 6 May 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210506072116/http://caacart.com/pigozzi-artist.php?i=Sidibe-Malick&m=48 | url-status = dead }}</ref> the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles,<ref name="getty">{{cite web|url = http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/248996/malick-sidibe-femme-peul-du-niger-malian-print-1970-frame-2004/ | access-date = 16 April 2016 | publisher = J. Paul Getty Museum | title = Femme Peul du Niger}}</ref> and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.<ref name="moma">{{cite web|url = http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/26555?locale=en | access-date = 16 April 2016 | publisher = Museum of Modern Art | title = Malick Sidibé: Malian, 1936–2016}}</ref>
==Life and work== [[File:Malick Sidibe's studio 2.jpg|thumbnail|right|Sidibé's studio in Bamako, showing his cameras and equipment]] Sidibé was born in the village of Soloba, 300 km from Bamako, in Mali. His father, Kolo Barry Sidibé, was a Fula stock breeder, farmer, and skilled hunter. Malick's father had wanted him to attend school, but passed before he was able to attend at the age of 16.<ref>{{cite web |title=Malik Sidibé: Mali Twist Exhibition |url=https://medias.fondationcartier.com/fondation/documents/press/CP-Sidibe_US.pdf |website=Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain}}</ref> In 1955 photographer Gérard Guillat came to the school looking for a student to decorate his studio, eventually hiring Sidibé. Guillat was impressed with his work and took him on as an apprentice. Sidibé's first tasks included calibrating equipment, and delivering prints. He soon learned more about photography as he assisted Guillat, and eventually took on his own clients. In 1957 Guillat closed his studio, and Sidibé began taking photographs of Bamako nightlife.<ref name="Midnight in Bamako" /><ref name="Ready to Wear">Lamuniere, Michelle, Malick Sidibe, and Lia Brozga. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/35101 "Ready to Wear: A conversation with Malick Sidibe"], ''Transition'' 10, no. 4 (2001): 132–159.</ref> He specialized in documentary photography, focusing particularly on the youth culture of the Malian capital.<ref name="auto">Schwendener, Martha (27 February 2014), [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/nyregion/a-review-of-malick-sidibe-chemises-in-poughkeepsie.html "The Young and the Rebellious: A Review of 'Malick Sidibé: Chemises' in Poughkeepsie"], ''The New York Times''.</ref> Sidibé took photographs at sport events, the beach, nightclubs, concerts, and even tagged along while the young men seduced girls.<ref name="shakur-nyt"/><ref name="BBC-obit"/> He increasingly became noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. In the 1970s, Sidibé turned towards the making of studio portraits. His background in drawing became useful: <blockquote>As a rule, when I was working in the studio, I did a lot of the positioning. As I have a background in drawing, I was able to set up certain positions in my portraits. I didn't want my subjects to look like mummies. I would give them positions that brought something alive in them.<ref name="lensculture"/></blockquote>
In 1962, Sidibé opened his own studio in the Bagadadji neighborhood of Bamako.<ref name="Ready to Wear" /> Sidibé continued to take photos of the surprise parties and club gatherings of the city until 1976. He attributed ending his career in reportagé to fewer club parties, rise in availability of affordable cameras, and the growth of the auto-lab film development industry.<ref name="Midnight in Bamako" /> Sidibé continued to shoot black and white studio portraits, ID photos, and fix broken cameras at his Bamako studio.<ref name="Midnight in Bamako" /> While Sidibé was locally famous for decades, he was not introduced into the Western fine art world until 1994 when he had a chance encounter with French curator André Magnin.<ref name="Midnight in Bamako" /> One of the best known of Sidibé's works from that time is ''Nuit de Noel, Happy Club (Christmas Eve, Happy Club)'' (1963), depicting a smiling couple – the man in a suit, the woman in a Western party dress (but barefoot) and both dancing, presumably, to music.<ref name="auto"/> And it was images like these that revealed how Sidibé's photographic style was inextricably linked to music. This connection is something that Sidibé had spoken about during interviews, over the years.<ref name="wordpress.com">{{cite web|url=https://musingsofagemini.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/malick-sidibe-janet-jackson/|title=Malick Sidibe & Janet Jackson|work=Musings of a Gemini Girl}}</ref> {{blockquote|"We were entering a new era, and people wanted to dance. Music freed us. Suddenly, young men could get close to young women, hold them in their hands. Before, it was not allowed. And everyone wanted to be photographed dancing up close."<ref name="laurent-time"/>}} It is perhaps no surprise that other Malian artists, such as the musicians Salif Keita and Ali Farka Touré, also came to international attention in the 1990s at almost the same moment as Malian photography was being recognized.<ref>Schwendener, Martha (8 February 2013), [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/nyregion/portraits-that-reveal-africas-vitality.html "Portraits of a Continent's Vitality, Past and Present"], ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/16/malick-sidibe-1936-2016-an-appreciation-eye-of-bamako-obituary-nuit-noel-happy-club-1963|title=An appreciation: Malick Sidibé, 1936–2016|first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | work=The Guardian|date=16 April 2016}}</ref> {| class="toccolours" style="float: right; margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 1em; font-size: 90%; background:beige; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5" | style="text-align: left;" | : "Throughout the 1960s and '70s, in graphic, vigorous, black-and-white pictures, Sidibé captured the dynamism and joy of a rapidly changing West Africa. In particular, he honed in on the vernaculars of style: the brash suits, the purposefully clashing prints, the girls pairing their headdresses with their cat-eye shades, the little kids in full tribal costume and face paint, the dancers kicking off their shoes. The party, the club, the dance floor—these were his settings, the places where people came to be seen and dressed the part. From midnight till dawn, Sidibé roamed the city, party-hopping, shooting hundreds of frames every weekend."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.com/13426666/malick-sidibe-obituary-mali-photographer-global-style/|title=Remembering Malick Sidibé, Who Photographed the Look of a Changing West Africa|first=Rebecca|last=Bengal|work=Vogue|date=15 April 2016|access-date=17 April 2016|archive-date=20 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620193339/http://www.vogue.com/13426666/malick-sidibe-obituary-mali-photographer-global-style/|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- | style="text-align: right;" | |} Sidibé used flash when out in the field, but only tungsten lighting in the studio. He used an Agfa 6 × 6 camera with bellows to shoot weddings and more formal events, and a Foca Sport 24 x 36 for his more candid work. He was known as a very charming person and would tell his clients jokes to put them at ease while shooting portraits.<ref name="Midnight in Bamako" /> The Grammy award-winning video of Janet Jackson's 1997 song "Got 'til It's Gone" is strongly indebted to the photographic style of Sidibé,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jezebel.com/malick-sidibe-iconic-malian-photographer-has-died-1771194412|title=Malick Sidibé, Iconic Malian Photographer, Has Died|first=Hillary |last=Crosley Coker|work=Jezebel|date=15 April 2016 }}</ref> and the video pays tribute to a particular time (during the 1960s and '70s)<ref name="economist.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/04/memoriam|title=In memoriam: Malick Sidibe's photographs captured the style and history of a newly independent Mali|last=C.B.|date=16 April 2016|work=The Economist}}</ref><ref name="mbphoto.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.mbphoto.com/artists/58-malick-sidib/biography/ |title=Malick Sidibé |website=M+B Photo}}</ref> that Sidibé's pictures had helped to document. This was the time period just after the French Sudan (and then the Mali Federation) had gained Independence from France in 1960.<ref>{{source-attribution|{{cite web|ref=Prof|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/cs/profiles/Mali.pdf|title=Mali country profile|publisher=Library of Congress Federal Research Division |date=January 2005}}}}</ref> This new era (post-1960) has, subsequently, been characterized by various observers as a post-colonial (and post-apartheid) awakening of consciousness. Many of those who admire Sidibé's work believe that he somehow captured the joy and wonder of this awakening, and that it is seen in the faces, scenes, and images that he helped to illuminate.<ref name="wordpress.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.craveonline.com/art/977713-master-photographer-malick-sidibe-dead-80|title=Master Photographer Malick Sidibé Dead at 80|work=CraveOnline}}</ref><ref name="okayafrica.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.okayafrica.com/news/malick-sidibe-iconic-malian-photographer/|title=Malick Sidibé's Work Will Live on After Death|first=Aaron|last=Leaf|date=15 April 2016|work=Okayafrica|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507193443/http://www.okayafrica.com/news/malick-sidibe-iconic-malian-photographer/|archive-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> More recently, Sidibé's influence can be seen directly through Inna Modja's 2015 video for her song "Tombouctou",<ref name="shakur-nyt"/><ref name="okayafrica.com"/> as it was filmed in Sidibé's photography studio.
In 2006, Tigerlily Films made a documentary entitled ''Dolce Vita Africana'' about Sidibé, filming him at work in his studio in Bamako, having a reunion with many of his friends (and former photographic subjects) from his younger days, and speaking to him about his work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africanfilmny.org/2013/dolce-vita-africana/|title=Dolce Vita Africana|work=African Film Festival Inc.}}</ref>
Sidibé became the first African and the first photographer to be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Robert Storr, the show's artistic director, said: {{cquote|No African artist has done more to enhance photography's stature in the region, contribute to its history, enrich its image archive or increase our awareness of the textures and transformations of African culture in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st than Malick Sidibé.<ref name="gelder-nytimes" />}}
Sidibé died<ref name="economist.com"/> of complications from diabetes in Bamako.<ref name="laurent-time"/><ref name="Grimes NYT">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/arts/malick-sidibe-photographer-known-for-social-reportage-in-mali-dies-at-80.html|title=Malick Sidibé, Photographer Known for Social Reportage in Mali, Dies at 80|last=Grimes|first=William|date=2016-04-15|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-04-27}}</ref> He was survived by 17 children and three wives.<ref name="Grimes NYT" />
Sidibé's work was included in the 2025 exhibition ''Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985'' at the National Gallery of Art. <ref name="Brookman">{{cite book |last1=Brookman |first1=Philip |last2=Willis |first2=Deborah |title=Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985 |date=2025 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven London |isbn=9780300283501 |page=262}}</ref>
==Publications==
===Publications by Sidibé=== *''Malick Sidibé''. Zurich; New York: Scalo, 1998. {{ISBN|9783931141936}}. Edited by André Magnin. With an introduction by Magnin, and essays by Sibidé ("Studio Malick"), Youssouf Doumbia, ("Ambiance totale avec Garrincha!"), Panka Dembelé ("Twist again!"), and Boubacar "Kar Kar" Traoré ("Elvis est vivant!"). Included a four-song music CD by Kar Kar. *''Malick Sidibé, Photographe: "vues de dos" photographies''. Carnets de la création, Mali. Montreal: Editions de l'oeil, 2001. {{ISBN|9782912415189}}. With a text by Amadou Chab Touré. 24 pages. *''Malick Sidibe: Photographs: the Hasselblad Award 2003''. Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center; Göttingen: Steidl, 2003. {{ISBN|9783882439731}}. With a foreword by Gunilla Knape, an essay by Manthia Diawara, "The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown", and a transcript of an interview with Sidibé by André Magnin. Published on the occasion of the exhibition ''Malick Sidibé: 2003 Hasselblad Award Winner'' held at the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden, 2003.<ref>{{cite book|title=Malick Sidibé : photographs.|oclc = 55012477}}</ref> *''Malick Sidibé: Chemises''. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. {{ISBN|9783865215239}}. Catalog of an exhibition presented at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and at Musée Nicệphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chemises|oclc = 229995192}}</ref> *''Malick Sidibe''. Wilsele, Belgium: Exhibitions International, 2008. By Foundation Zinsou. {{ISBN|978-9057791048}}. *''Bagadadji''. Saint-Brieuc, France: GwinZegal, 2008. {{ISBN|9782952809924}}. With an essay by Florian Ebner, "La scène de Bagadadji". Portraits of the inhabitants of Bagadadji, Bamako, taken between 1964 and 1976. ** English-language version. ** French-language version. ** German-language version. *''Perception''. Saint-Brieuc, France: GwinZegal, 2008. {{ISBN|9782952809955}}. In French. Studio portraits made in Brittany, France, over the course of three weeks in July 2006. *''Malick Sidibé: La Vie en Rose''. Milan: Silvana, 2010. Edited and with text by Laura Incardona and Laura Serani. {{ISBN|978-8836617166}}. *''Malick Sidibé: The Portrait of Mali (Sinetica Landscape)''. Milan: Skira, 2011. Edited by Laura Incardona, Laura Serani, and Sabrina Zannier. {{ISBN|978-8857211251}}. Text in English, French and Italian. *''Malick Sidibé: Au village''. Montreuil, France: Éditions de L'Œil, 2011. {{ISBN|978-2351371329}}. Text by Brigitte Ollier. Studio portraits taken in Sidibé's native village of Soloba over the course of 50 years. In French. *''Malick Sidibé''. :fr:Photo Poche No. 145. Arles, France: :fr:Actes Sud, 2013. {{ISBN|978-2-330-01229-8}}. With an introduction by Laura Serani.
===Publications with contributions by Sidibé=== *''Photographes de Bamako: de 1935 à nos jours''. Collection Soleil. Paris: Revue Noire, 1989. {{ISBN|978-2909571218}}. Photographs by Sidibé, Mountaga Dembélé, Seydou Keïta, Félix Diallo, Sakaly, AMAP, Alioune Bâ, Emmanuel Daou, Abdourahmane Sakaly, and others. With a text by Érika Nimis. In French and English. *''In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present''. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996. {{ISBN|9780810968950}}. With an introduction by Clare Bell and essays by Okwui Enwezor, Olu Oguibe, and Octavio Zaya. Photographs by Sidibé, Cornélius Yao Azaglo Augustt, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Zarina Bhimji, Gordon Bleach, Nabil Boutros, Cloete Breytenbach, Salla Casset, Mody Sory Diallo, Mohammed Dib, Kamel Dridi, Touhami Ennadre, Mathew Faji, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, Jellel Gasteli, Meïssa Gaye, Christian Gbagbo, David Goldblatt, Bob Gosani, Ranjith Kally, Seydou Keita, Peter Magubane, Santu Mofokeng, G. R. Naidoo, Lamia Naji, Gopal Naransamy, Lionel Oostendorp, Ricardo Rangel, and Iké Udé. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May–September 1996. *''Clubs of Bamako: 9 March-16 April 2000''. Houston, TX: Rice University Art Gallery, 2000. {{OCLC|45496053}}. Photographs by Sidibé, Emile Guebehi, Koffi Kouakou, and Coulibaly Siaka Paul. Catalogue of an exhibition. *''You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait – Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe''. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|978-0300091885}}. Edited by Michelle Lamuniere. *''Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé: Portraits of Pride: West African Portrait Photography''. Katalog / Moderna Museet 318. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Raster-Förl, 2002. {{ISBN|978-9171006776}}. Photographs by Sibidé, Samuel Fosso, and Seydou Keïta. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, September–October 2002; Norskt Fotomuseum, March–April 2003. In Swedish and English. *''African Art Now: Masterpieces From the Jean Pigozzi Collection''. London; New York: Merrell, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0890902950}}. By André Magnin, Alison de Lima Greene, Alvia J. Wardlaw, and Thomas McEvilley. Paintings, photographs, sculpture and installation art by 33 artists. Catalogue of an exhibition of work from The Contemporary African Art Collection held at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. *''The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, Recent Art''. New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2008. {{ISBN|9780615220833}}. Edited by Lynn Gumpert. With essays by Kofi Anyidoho, Lynn Gumpert, and John Picton, and contributions by Jennifer S. Brown, Lydie Diakhaté, Janet Goldner, Lynn Gumpert, John Picton, and Doran H. Ross. Reproductions of paintings, sculptures, videos and photographs by Sidibé, El Anatsui, Samuel Cophis, Viye Diba, Sokari Douglas Camp, Groupe Bogolan Kasobane, Abdoulaye Konaté, Rachid Koraïchi, Atta Kwami, Grace Ndiritu, Nike Okundaye, Owusu-Ankomah, Yinka Shonibare, Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko, Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, and Sue Williamson. "Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Grey Art Gallery, Sept. 16–Dec. 6, 2008."<ref>{{cite book| title=The poetics of cloth : African textiles, recent art | publisher= WorldCat|oclc = 271451627}}</ref> *''Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection''. Burlafingen, Germany: The Walther Collection; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2010. {{ISBN|9783869301570}}. Edited by Okwui Enwezor. With texts by Willis E. Hartshorn and Artur Walther, Okwui Enwezor, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Deborah Willis ("Malick Sidibé': the front of the back view"), Santu Mofokeng, and Kobena Mercer. Photographs by Sibidé, Sammy Baloji, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Yto Barrada, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Candice Breitz, Allan deSouza, Theo Eshetu, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, David Goldblatt, Kay Hassan, Romuald Hazoumè, Pieter Hugo, Seydou Keïta, Maha Maamoun, Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Salem Mekuria, Santu Mofokeng, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Zanele Muholi, James Muriuku, Ingrid Mwangi, Grace Ndiritu, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Jo Ractliffe, August Sander, Berni Searle, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Hentie van der Merwe, and Nontsikelelo Veleko. In English with German translation. Published to accompany an exhibition in Burlafingen, Germany, June 2010. *''Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s''. London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2012. {{ISBN|9780946372393}}. Edited by Kate Bush and Gerry Badger. With texts by Bush ("Everything was moving"), Badger ("Spirit of the times, spirit of place: a view of photography in the 1960s and 1970s"), Gavin Jantjes ("Ernest Cole"), Sean O'Hagan ("The unreal everyday: William Eggleston's America" and "Against detachment: Bruce Davidson's photographs of America during the Civil Rights Era"), Tanya Barson ("Graciela Iturbide: a matter of complicity"), T. J. Demos ("On Sigmar Polke's Der Bärenkampf"), Helen Petrovsky ("Boris Mikhailov: towards a new universality"), Boris Mikhailov ("Yesterday's sandwich"), Ian Jeffrey ("Shomei Tomatsu"), Julian Stallabrass ("Rather a hawk?: the photography of Larry Burrows"), Robert Pledge ("Li Zhensheng: the cinematographer behind the photographer"), Manthia Diawara ("The sixties in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown"), Shanay Jhaveri ("Raghubir Singh and the geographical culture of India"), and Raghubir Singh ("River of colour: an Indian view"). Photographs by Sidibé, David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, William Eggleston, Bruce Davidson, Graciela Iturbide, Sigmar Polke, Boris Mikhailov, Shomei Tomatsu, Larry Burrows, Li Zhensheng, and Raghubir Singh. Published on the occasion of the exhibition ''Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s'', curated by Kate Bush, September 2012–January 2013 at Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London. *''Malian Portrait Photography''. New Platz, New York: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, 2013. {{ISBN|9780615510941}}. Photographs by Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, El Hadj Hamidou Maïga, Abdourahmane Sakaly, and El Hadj Tijani Àdìgún Sitou. With text by Daniel Leers. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Malian Portrait Photography on display from January 23–April 14, 2013, in the North Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz."<ref>{{cite book| title=Malian portrait photography | publisher= WorldCat|oclc = 840267063}}</ref> *''Afriphoto II''. Collection Afriphoto, Vols 5–8. Trézélan: Filigranes, 2005. {{ISBN|9782350460079}}. Vol. 5 is by Sidibé, vol. 6 is by Bill Akwa Bétotè, vol. 7 is by Omar D, and vol. 8 is by Fouad Hamza Tibin and Mohamed Yahia Issa. Edited by Corinne Julien. With texts by Guy Hersant, Jacques Matinet, and Claude Iverné. In French.
===Publications about Sidibé=== *''Retrats de l'Anima: Fotografia Africana''. Barcelona: La Caixa Foundation, 1997. {{OCLC|50666491}}. By Sélim Benattiam, Cristina de Borbón, and Rosa Casamada. In Catalan and English. An exhibition catalogue. With a contribution by Mounira Khemir, "De una Punta a otra de Africa. Impresionas Fotograficas". *''The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown''. Paper Series on the Arts, Culture, and Society, Paper No. 11. By Manthia Diawara. New York: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2001. {{OCLC|47999579}}. About Sidibé and James Brown.<ref group="n">The text can be read [http://warholfoundation.org/grant/paper11/paper.html here within the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201202243/http://warholfoundation.org/grant/paper11/paper.html |date=1 February 2021 }}.</ref> *''Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire'', Vol. 4, No. 2/3. New York: New York University, 2002. Included an essay by Manthia Diawara, ''The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown''. *''Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2005. Edited by Harry J. Elam Jr., and Kennell Jackson Jr. {{ISBN|9780472025459}}. Includes a chapter by Manthia Diawara, "The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown".
==Awards== *2003: Hasselblad Award for photography<ref name="hasselblad-foundation" /> *2007: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Venice Biennale<ref name="gelder-nytimes" /> *2008: Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, International Center of Photography (ICP), New York<ref name="lensculture" /> *2010: World Press Photo award – first prize singles, Arts and Entertainment<ref name="world-press-photo-2010" />
==Collections== [[File:Malick Sidibe's studio.jpg|thumbnail|Sidibé's negative collection, in his studio in Bamako]] Sidibé's work is held in the following public collections: *The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois<ref>{{Cite web|title=Malick Sidibé|url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/111968/malick-sidibe|access-date=6 June 2020|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|language=en}}</ref> *The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi, Geneva<ref name="caac" /> *J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA<ref name="getty" /> *Museum of Modern Art, New York<ref name="moma" /> *Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York<ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/in-and-out-of-the-studio In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa] ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art''</ref> *San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Malick_Sidib%C3%A9#works|title=Malick Sidibé|work=SFMOMA}}</ref> *Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.artbma.org/2014/10/bma-voices-the-boxer/|title=BMA Voices: The Boxer.|access-date=17 April 2016|archive-date=11 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311173950/http://blog.artbma.org/2014/10/bma-voices-the-boxer/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jackshainman.com/artists/malick-sidibe/|title=Malick Sidibe – Jack Shainman Gallery}}</ref> *Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL<ref name="mbphoto.com"/> *Studio Museum in Harlem (New York)<ref name="mbphoto.com"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://studiomuseum.org/exhibition/permanent-collection/malick-sidib-untitled |title=Permanent Collection: ''Untitled, c. 1974''{{!}} The Studio Museum in Harlem |access-date=17 April 2016 |archive-date=9 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609202827/http://studiomuseum.org/exhibition/permanent-collection/malick-sidib-untitled |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://studiomuseum.org/exhibition/permanent-collection/malick-sidibe-groupe-de-barbus |title=Permanent Collection: ''Groupe de Barbus''{{!}} The Studio Museum in Harlem |access-date=17 April 2016 |archive-date=9 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609222018/http://studiomuseum.org/exhibition/permanent-collection/malick-sidibe-groupe-de-barbus |url-status=dead }}</ref> *High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA<ref name="mbphoto.com"/> *International Center of Photography, New York<ref name="mbphoto.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/nuit-de-no%C3%ABl|title=Nuit de Noël|work=International Center of Photography}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/malick-sidib%C3%A9?all/all/all/all/0|title=Malick Sidibé|work=International Center of Photography}}</ref> *Moderna Museet, Stockholm<ref name="mbphoto.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/2011/02/15/fantastiska-donationer-av-fotokonst/|title=Fantastic donations of photographic art|work=Moderna Museet i Stockholm|date=15 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/moderna-museet-co-enkehuset/information-about-keita-sidibe-and-fosso/|title=Keita, Sidibé and Fosso|work=Moderna Museet i Stockholm}}</ref> *The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Collections|url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/14274/malick-sidibe/objects|access-date=13 June 2020}}</ref>
==Exhibitions== ===Solo exhibitions=== * 1995: ''Malick Sidibé: Bamako 1962–1976'', Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris<ref name="galeriedujour.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.galeriedujour.com/artistes/malicksidibe/BIO-MALICK-SIDIBE_2016.pdf |title=Galerie du jour agnès b.: Les artistes: Malick Sidibé |website=Galerie du jour agnès |access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 1999: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL<ref name="galeriedujour.com"/> * 1999: ''Malick Sidibé. Photographie'', Dany Keller Galerie, Munich<ref>{{cite web|url=http://danykellergalerie.de/archiv/archiv_index.htm|title=Dany Keller Galerie – Archiv|website=danykellergalerie.de|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 1999: ''Cool Cats and Twist Club'', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia * 2000: Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland<ref name="galeriedujour.com"/> * 2001: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy<ref name="afronova.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.afronova.com/artists/malick-sidibe-2/|title=Malick Sidibé|website=Afronova Gallery}}</ref> * 2001: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands<ref name="afronova.com"/> * 2002: HackelBury Fine Art Limited, London{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} * 2003: Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden<ref name="galeriedujour.com"/> * 2004: CAV Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal<ref name="galeriedujour.com"/> * 2004: Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark<ref name="afronova.com"/> * 2005: ''Photographs: 1960–2004'', Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jackshainman.com/exhibition103.html|title=Malick Sidibe / Photographs: 1960–2004 :: JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY|first=Jack Shainman gallery. Designed by StudioRadia. Web-development by Unlabeled|last=studio.|website=jackshainman.com|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=16 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916205616/http://www.jackshainman.com/exhibition103.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2007: ''Malick Sidibé. C'est Pas Ma Faute'', Musee des arts derniers, Paris * 2007: ''Malick Sidibé. Los Sabena Club'', Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gallery51.com/index.php?navigatieid=236&exhibitionid=42|title=FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery – Exhib. Fifty One – past|website=gallery51.com|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2008: ''Malick Sidibé. Chemises'', Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands<ref name="galeriedujour.com"/> * 2009: ''Malick Sidibé. Bamako Nights'', Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon sur Saône, France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museeniepce.com/index.php?/exposition/exposition-passee/Malick-Sidibe|title=musée Nicéphore Niépce – Malick Sidibé|website=museeniepce.com|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2010: "Studio Malick", Tristan Hoare, London<ref>{{cite web |author= Hoare, Tristan |url= http://tristanhoaregallery.co.uk/app/uploads/2016/10/1814-Malick-Sidibe%CC%81.pdf |title= L'oeil de Bamako |publisher= 1841 Magazine |access-date= 22 June 2017 |archive-date= 4 August 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170804221410/http://tristanhoaregallery.co.uk/app/uploads/2016/10/1814-Malick-Sidibe%CC%81.pdf |url-status= dead }}</ref> * 2011: ''Malick Sidibé. The Eye of Bamako'', M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA<ref name="galeriedujour.com"/> * 2015: ''Studio Malick. Gares de Bretagne et Montparnasse'', Frac Bretagne, Conseil régional and SNCF<ref name="galeriedujour.com"/> * 2014: ''Malick Sidibé'', Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jackshainman.com/exhibitions/past/2014/malick-sidibe/|title=MALICK SIDIBE, MARCH 28 – APRIL 26, 2014|website=jackshainman.com|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2016: ''It's Too Funky in Here! By Malick Sidibé'', FIFTY ONE TOO, Antwerp, Belgium<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gallery51.com/index.php?navigatieid=248&exhibitionid=129|title=FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery – Exhib. Fifty One Too – past|website=gallery51.com|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2017: ''Malick Sidibé. The Eye of Modern Mali'', Somerset House, London<ref name="somerset-house">{{cite web|url=https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/malick-sidibe | title = Malick Sidibé: The Eye of Modern Mali | publisher=Somerset House | access-date = 21 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/27/exhibition-of-malick-sidibe-photography-to-open-in-london | date = 27 July 2016 | access-date = 21 October 2016 | first = Mark | last = Brown | newspaper = The Guardian| location = London | title = Exhibition of Malick Sidibé photography to open in London}}</ref> His first solo exhibition in the UK.<ref name="somerset-house" />
===Group exhibitions and festivals=== * 1995: ''Seydou Keita & Malick Sidibe: Photographs From Mali'', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland * 1996: ''Double vie, Double vue'', Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France * 1996: ''By Night'', Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France * 1999: 6th International İstanbul Biennial 1999, International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey * 2000: ''Africa: Past-Present'', Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gallery51.com/index.php?navigatieid=236&exhibitionid=10|title=FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery – Exhib. Fifty One – past|website=gallery51.com|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2001–2003: ''You look beautiful like that: The Portrait of Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé'', Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; UCLA Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL; National Portrait Gallery, London; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA<ref name="afronova.com"/> * 2004: ''Photography: Inaugural Installation'', Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3100|title=Photography: Inaugural Installation – MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2004: ''Seeds and Roots'', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/seeds-and-roots-selections-the-permanent-collection|title=The Studio Museum in Harlem|website=studiomuseum.org|access-date=2018-10-30}}</ref> * 2005: ''African Art Now – Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection'', National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA<ref>{{cite web|url=https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/pigozzi/intro1.html|title=National Museum of African Art – African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection – Introduction|website=africa.si.edu|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2007: ''Why Africa? The work of 13 photographers including Sidibé, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Chéri Samba, Makonde Lilanga, and Keita Seydou'', Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy.<ref name="afronova.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pinacoteca-agnelli.it/visit/1218/why-africa-la-collezione-pigozzi/|title=Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli Why Africa? La collezione Pigozzi}}</ref> * 2009: ''Masters of Photography'', Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gallery51.com/index.php?navigatieid=236&exhibitionid=67|title=FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery – Exhib. Fifty One – past|website=gallery51.com|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2009: ''Some Tribes'', Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland<ref>{{cite web|url=https://christopheguye.com/exhibitions/some-tribes/introduction|title=Some Tribes|publisher=Christophe Guye Galerie|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2010: ''Posing Beauty in African American Culture'', Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, USA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/ex_archive10.php|title=Exhibition Archive – Art Gallery of Hamilton|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2010: ''Un Rêve Utile: Photographie Africaine 1960–2010'', BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bozar.be/fr/activities/2566-un-reve-utile|title=Un rêve utile|website=BOZAR|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924063026/https://www.bozar.be/fr/activities/2566-un-reve-utile|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2010: ''Represent: Imaging African American Culture in Contemporary Art'', Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, USA * 2010: ''African Stories'', Marrakech Art Fair, Marrakech<ref name="afronova.com"/> * 2011: Paris Photo, Grand Palais, The Walther Collection<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/nov/13/paris-photo-review-eggleston-arbus | title=Paris Photo 2011 – review: Grand Palais, Paris | newspaper=The Guardian| date=12 November 2011 | access-date=18 April 2016 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan }}</ref> * 2012: ''Afrika, hin und zurück'', Museum Folkwang, Essen<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.museum-folkwang.de/nl/aktuelles/ausstellungen/archiv/afrika-hin-und-zurueck.html|title=Afrika, hin und zurück – Museum Folkwang|first=BOROS.INTERAKTIV|last=GmbH|website=Museum Folkwang|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=5 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005101220/https://www.museum-folkwang.de/nl/aktuelles/ausstellungen/archiv/afrika-hin-und-zurueck.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2012: ''Gaze – The Changing Face of Portrait Photography'', Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.istanbulmodern.org/en/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/gaze-changing-face-of-portrait-photography_948.html|title=Gaze – Changing Face of Portrait Photography – İstanbul Modern|first=ISTANBUL MODERN, ISTANBUL MUSEUM OF MODERN|last=ART|website=istanbulmodern.org|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2012: ''Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s'', Barbican Centre,<ref name="afronova.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13613|title=Barbican – Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s|work=barbican.org.uk}}</ref> * 2014: ''Back to Front'', Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, USA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marianeibrahim.com/back-to-front-j-d-okhai-ojeikere-and-malick-sidibe|title=Mariane Ibrahim Gallery – Back to Front, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere and Malick Sidibe|website=marianeibrahim.com|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=7 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707115102/http://marianeibrahim.com/back-to-front-j-d-okhai-ojeikere-and-malick-sidibe|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2014: Ici l'Afrique, Château de Penthes, Pregny-Chambésy, France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penthes.ch/portfolio/lafrique-contemporaine-vue-dans-le-regard-de-ses-artistes/|title=Ici l'Afrique|website=penthes.ch|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=21 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121202332/http://www.penthes.ch/portfolio/lafrique-contemporaine-vue-dans-le-regard-de-ses-artistes/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2015: ''The Pistil's waitz'', Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gallery51.com/index.php?navigatieid=236&exhibitionid=116|title=FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery – Exhib. Fifty One – past|website=gallery51.com|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2015: ''Making Africa. Un Continente De Diseño Contemporáneo'', Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain<ref>{{cite web|url=http://makingafrica.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/exposicion/#la-exposicion-02|title=Making Africa – Museo Guggenheim Bilbao|website=Making Africa – Museo Guggenheim Bilbao|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2016: ''VIVRE !!'', Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/agenda/2016-07/vivre|title=VIVRE !! – Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration|website=histoire-immigration.fr|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2016: ''Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism'', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africa-tamuseum.org.il/|title=Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism, Tel Aviv Museum of Art|website=Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2017: ''Back Stories'', Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, USA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marianeibrahim.com/artists/back-stories|title=Mariane Ibrahim Gallery – BACK STORIES|website=marianeibrahim.com|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2017: ''Il Cacciatore Bianco / The White Hunter'', FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fmcca.it/it/scheda-mostra/eve/26-il-cacciatore-bianco-the-white-hunter/|title=Scheda mostra|website=fmcca.it|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref> * 2017: ''Rhona Hoffman. 40 Years: Part 3. Political'', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siebrenv.easycgi.com/rhoffmangallery.com/exhibition.asp?exid=624|title=Rhona Hoffman Gallery|website=siebrenv.easycgi.com|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-date=5 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005151552/http://siebrenv.easycgi.com/rhoffmangallery.com/exhibition.asp?exid=624|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2020: ''Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collections'', The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas<ref>{{Cite web|title=Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum’s Collection|url=https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/through-african-lens-sub-saharan-photography-mfah-collection|access-date=14 June 2020|website=The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston}}</ref>
==Film and television appearances== *''Malick Sidibé: portrait of the artist as a portraitist'' (2006). {{OCLC|68907552}}. Directed by Susan Vogel for the National Museum of Mali / Prince Street Pictures. Produced by Vogel, Samuel Sidbe, and Catherine de Clippel. Interview with Sidibé by Jean-Paul Colleyn. In French with English subtitles. *''Dolce Vita Africana'' (2008, Tigerlily Films). 62 mins. Directed by Cosima Spender. Produced by Natasha Dack, Nikki Parrott, and Spender. A documentary about Sidibé, and about Malian history as told through people he photographed. In Bamanankan and French. The film was shown as part of BBC4's ''Storyville'' series in March 2008. *''Malick Sidibé, le Partage'' (2013, P.O.M. Films; Éditions de L'Œil, ADAV). 52 mins. DVD and brochure. Film by Thomas Glaser, text by Gaël Teicher. {{ISBN|9782351371558}}. The film is in French with French and English subtitles, and the text is in French.
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== Further reading == {{refbegin}} * {{Cite news |last1=Dickson |first1=Andrew |title=Malick Sidibé's Mali: Scenes of a Rollicking Night Life |work=The New York Times |date=2017-11-10 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/design/malick-sidibes-work-reveals-a-hidden-africa-it-loves-to-party.html |issn=0362-4331 }} {{refend}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{YouTube|id=GHi4TG1SwFU|title=Malick Sidibé, Icontent, Douglas Sloan Director}} Video duration 6m:09s. Uploader Icontenttv, 2009. By Douglas Sloan. * {{Cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/artist/15531/malick-sidibe.html |title=Malick Sidibé (Malian, born circa 1936–2016) |website=artnet.com |publisher=Artnet |quote=Malick Sidibé was a celebrated Malian photographer. Working primarily in black and white, his photographs captured lively portraits and scenes of celebration. His best-known works depict the burgeoning pop culture and nightlife of the Malian capital, prolifically documenting young people and their dress in elegantly posed studio portraits with patterned backdrops, which either match or deliberately clash with the sitters' outfits and poses. |access-date=2023-10-05}} * {{Cite web |url=http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1259|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627033416/http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1259 |archive-date=2007-06-27 |last=Clewing |first=Ulrich |title=Malick Sidibé: Pictures full of music |quote=Malick Sidibé got off to a late but flying start in the international art-scene with an exhibition in Paris in 1995. Since then curators and gallery owners all round the world have been vying to show his photos. |access-date=2023-10-05}} * {{Cite web |url=http://www.caacart.com/pigozzi-artist.php?i=Sidibe-Malick&m=48 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127013246/http://www.caacart.com/pigozzi-artist.php?i=Sidibe-Malick&m=48 |archive-date=2022-01-27 |title=Malick Sidibé |website=caacart.com |publisher=Contemporary African Art Collection (C.A.A.C.) / The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art |location=Geneva}} * {{Cite web |url=http://www.jackshainman.com/artists/malick-sidibe/ |website=jackshainman.com |title=Jack Shainman Gallery, Sidibé |access-date=2023-10-05 |quote=Malick Sidibé (b. 1935, Soloba, Mali; d. 2016, Bamako, Mali) was a photographer known for his black and white images chronicling the exuberant lives and culture—often of youth—in his native Bamako, Mali.}}
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