Seydou Keïta, Photographs from Mali, Folded Card, Gagosian Gallery, 1997

Folded card for Seydou Keïta’s Photographs from Mali exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, 1997.  Front of card features Keïta’s photograph, A woman lying on her elbow on a bed covered with a beautiful black-and-white chequered blanket (koso walan).  She is wearing a loose boubou in a flower print (dloki ba) and a head-scarf “á la de Gaulle”.  She has tribal scar tattoos and is wearing a cornelian necklace (tyaaka).

6.25″ x 9″

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