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Malick Sidib\u00e9, Le Faux Musicien Derriere sa Voiture<\/i>, 1971\/2008, silver gelatin print, 20 7\/8″ x 14″.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Malian photographer Malick Sidib\u00e9\u2019s latest exhibition opens tonight at Jack Shainman Gallery<\/a>. Sidib\u00e9, who\u2019s seventy-nine or eighty, lives in Bamako, where he\u2019s worked as a photographer since the fifties; he\u2019s known for his vivacious black-and-white studies of the city\u2019s youth culture. \u201cYou go to someone\u2019s wedding, someone\u2019s christening<\/a>,\u201d he told LensCulture in 2008, speaking of the renown he gained as a party photographer:<\/em><\/p>\n

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I was lucky enough at that time to be the intellectual young photographer with a small camera who could move around. The early photographers like Seydou Ke\u00efta worked with plate cameras and were not able to get out and use a flash. So I was much in demand by the local youth. Everywhere \u2026 in town, everywhere! Whenever there was a dance, I was invited \u2026 At night, from midnight to four A.M.<\/small> or six A.M.<\/small>, I went from one party to another. I could go to four different parties. If there were only two, it was like having a rest. But if there were four, you couldn\u2019t miss any. If you were given four invitations, you had to go. You couldn\u2019t miss them.\u00a0I\u2019d leave one place, I\u2019d take thirty-six shots here, thirty-six shots there, and then thirty-six somewhere else, until the morning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His new show spans the whole of his career; it\u2019s up through April 23.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Surprise Party<\/i>, 2002, silver gelatin print, 23 3\/4″ x 19 3\/4″.<\/p><\/div>

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Vues de dos\u2014Juin<\/i>, 2003\/2004, vintage gelatin silver print, glass, paint, cardboard, tape, and string, 10 3\/4″ x 14 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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A C\u00f4t\u00e9 de la Voiture<\/i>, 1971\/2002, silver gelatin print on board, 23 3\/4″ x 20″.<\/p><\/div>

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Les apprentis m\u00e9canitiens du garage de Draman\u00e9<\/i>, 1966\/2008, silver gelatin print, 15 1\/2″ x 14 3\/4″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Malian photographer Malick Sidib\u00e9\u2019s latest exhibition opens tonight at Jack Shainman Gallery. 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