Malick Sidibé. La vie en Rose

Acclaimed for his black-and-white photographs of 1960s youth culture in Bamako, Mali, Malick Sidibe (born 1936) is today the African continent´s best-known photographer. Sidibe 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 Sidibe: La Vie en Rose provides a survey of this work, focusing primarily on Sidibe´s images of Mali´s buzzing youth culture and family life in Bamako in the 1960s and 70s. Laura Serani´s foreword contextualizes Sidibe´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 Sidibe´s famous "chemises" (photographic dossiers), which documents his working methods.