African Studio Photography

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African Studio Photography

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Africa is not a place but a problem to be solved.There are no people, only statistics; numbers to becalculated and frowned at.African studio photography serves as an antidote toan attitude that reduces a continent to the pet projectof Western musicians.The work of the following photographers is a windowinto how Africans view themselves; playful, urbaneand hopeful.

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Seydou Keita

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Seydou Keita, Mali, 1921.His first camera was a Kodak Brownie.

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Mama Casset

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Mama Casset, Senegal, 1920.After serving in the photographic department of theFrench Air Force, Mama Casset opened his first studio,African Photo, in Dakar.

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Malick Sidibe

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Malick Sidibe, Mali, 1935.A self­taught photographer who documentedthe post­colonial youth culture of Mali.

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