Man in Fedora

Seydou Keïta Malian

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Untrimmed black and white print (dating 1975, printed in New York by Jerry L. Thompson) along with its original film negative.
The subject is a male figure who stands frontally with his hands at his side. He wears a pair of loose white trousers with a black blazer over top. His fedora sits askew on his head and he breaks with formal conventions of portraiture to smile at the camera. The backdrop is a textile without any pattern, which lets us see parts of the wall behind it. On the lower right hand corner of the negative, a reversed date stamp reveals when it was developed.

Man in Fedora, Seydou Keïta (Malian, Bamako ca. 1921–2001 Paris), Gelatin silver print

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Man in Fedora, Seydou Keïta (Malian, Bamako ca. 1921–2001 Paris), Gelatin silver print
Man in Fedora, Seydou Keïta (Malian, Bamako ca. 1921–2001 Paris), Gelatin silver print

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