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© Malick Sidibé
MALICK
SIDIBÉ
Malian, born 1936
Christmas Eve
1963, printed 1999
Gelatin silver print
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Malian, born 1936
Christmas Eve
1963, printed 1999
Gelatin silver print
Image: 47 x 44 7/16 inches
Sheet: 59 9/16 x 49 7/8 inches
Gift of Nina and Michael Zilkha
Arts of AfricaABOUT
Malick Sidibé’s photographs, produced in the 1960s through the mid-1970s, captured the parties and informal clubs around Bamako, Mali, where rock and roll had become the soundtrack of freedom. Preparations surrounding a solo exhbition by Sidibé at Deitch Projects, New York, in 1999, led to the life-size sculptural tableau Clubs of Bamako, by Coulibaly Siaka Paul.