Seydou Keïta

Scalo Edition, Zurich 1997


First edition. Hardcover, cream paper covered boards with title printed in red on spine, under photographically illustrated dust jacket.

286 pages. 207 duotone plates.
In his photo studio in Bamako, Seydou Keïta photographed thousands of people who visited him from all over the country.
This monograph offers the first overview of Keïta’s work from the 1940s to the 1970s.
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Text in English by André Magnin ( editor of the book and curator of the exhibition « Contemporary African Art Collection », Paris 1997 ) and Youssouf Tata Cissé.
Interview Keïta / Magnin, Bamako 1995 – 1996.
From page 273 to page 281 : captions with very complete details about all the plates.

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24 X 29,5 cm


Condition : very good : strangely, there is no title page and there is a small tear (1 cm) on the back of the dust jacket (see last picture below ).
We join : one copy of the Scalo New Books Spring Catalog , with 2 pages of information about the book + an illustrated invitation card for the Seydou Keïta exhibition at Dorothée De Pauw Gallery, Brussels ( 12/11 – 19/12 1998 ).

60 € ( book + catalog +invitation card )

For more pictures see below