Malick Sidibe

Acclaimed for his black-and-white photographs of 1960s youth culture in Bamako, Mali, Malick Sidib� (born 1936) is today the African continent's best-known photographer. Sidib� was recently awarded the Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2007)--the first time this award was presented to a photographer--and the Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008), in recognition of his contribution to documentary photography and the historical record. Malick Sidib� La Vie en Rose provides a survey of this work, focusing primarily on Sidib�'s images of Mali's buzzing youth culture and family life in Bamako in the 1960s and 70s. Laura Serani's foreword contextualizes Sidib�'s work in a wider survey of African photography; the book also includes an interview with the photographer by Laura Incardona and an appendix with Sidib�'s famous "chemises" (photographic dossiers), which documents his working methods.

Aclamat pentru fotografiile sale alb-negru ale culturii tinerilor din anii 1960 din Bamako, Mali, Malick Sidib (nascut in 1936) este astazi cel mai cunoscut fotograf al continentului african. Sidib a primit recent Bienal de la Venetia Leul de Aur pentru realizarea vietii (2007) - prima data cand acest premiu a fost acordat unui fotograf - si Premiul Infinity pentru realizarea vietii (2008), ca recunoastere a contributiei sale la fotografia documentara si evidenta istorica.