Je veux être seule
Malick Sidibé Malian
Not on view
During the decades before and after Mali’s independence from France in 1960, Malick Sidibé operated a highly regarded commercial photography studio in the capital city of Bamako, making thousands of portraits for a burgeoning middle class. The central print represents a case of retrospective omission: the woman who commissioned this portrait returned to the studio after her husband left her and asked that he remove his image from the photograph, a request with which Sidibé complied.
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