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Seydou Keïta: When Photography Becomes Tactile

In the courtyard of his home in Bamako, Seydou Keïta photographed an entire people in the process of reinventing itself. The Brooklyn Museum now dedicates to him the largest retrospective of his work ever organized in North America.
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Bamako-Coura, “New Bamako,” in the early 1930s. In the family carpentry workshop, a boy of about ten is assembling furniture, without imagining that he will become one of the greatest African photographers. Seydou Keïta was born around 1921 into a Ma...

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Jonas Cuénin

Jonas Cuénin works as managing director at Blind and has previously been working as editor-in-chief at the magazines L’Oeil de la Photographie and Camera.

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