Painted FramesPainted Frames, a little known collection of works by the late Malick Sidib. Known as the 'Eye of Bamako,' Sidib documented the lives, style, and energy of post independence Mali with unparalleled intimacy. His iconic black and white photographs, from the exuberant youth of Bamako's dancehalls to the self assured subjects in his studio, captured a nation defining itself in a moment of profound social and cultural change. Painted Frames reimagines this

It is celebrated on January 14

He uses a unique hyper-focused approach in a study of two pure forms of raw energy

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or first-responder departments

half a century of American history (from 1970 to 2015) is told in a wandering led like a road-movie

looking away at my world as a female with the best possible hope

Although each member of this "holy trinity" (as they were dubbed by photographer and publisher Jonathan Williams) has been honored with individual museum retrospectives

This multi-layered book creates a necessary dialogue between text and imagery

as its immediacy demonstrates how keen she was to record and present her interpretation of the world around her

The type has been set in Monotype Dante in reference to Katy Homans’ original design for William Eggleston´s 1978 book

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