Seydou Keïta

Photographer, Visual Artist

1921 – 2001

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Who was Seydou Keïta?

Seydou Keïta was a self-taught portrait photographer from Bamako. He is mostly known for his portraits of people and families he took between 1940 and the early 1960s and that are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art.

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Born
1921
Mali
Also known as
  • Seydou Keita
Profession
Died
Nov 21, 2001

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on July 23, 2013

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