[Self-Portrait]
Malick Sidibé Malian
Not on view
In 1962 Sidibé opened a commercial photography studio in Bamako, the capital of Mali, and over the ensuing decades made thousands of portraits of the burgeoning middle class in the city’s streets and discotheques. This dynamic self-portrait was made six years before he opened his practice, shortly after he bought his first camera. Turning his head, the artist seems caught unaware, responding to an unseen interlocutor. Selected by Sidibé, the hand-painted glass frame was made in Bamako.
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![[Self-Portrait], Malick Sidibé (Malian, Soloba 1936–2016 Bamako), Gelatin silver print; glass, paint, cardboard, tape, and string](/Rodan/dist/svg/rolling-0.9s-30px.svg)
