Mali High.
If you were a resident of Mali's capital city in the '40s or '50s and sat for a portrait in photographer Seydou Keita's studio, you were defining yourself as not only prosperous but modern. At Harvard's Fogg Art Museum this fall, "You Look Beautiful Like That" (Sept. 1- Dec. 16) presents more than twenty of Keita's richly patterned black-and-white images of mid-century Bamako Bamako (bämäkō`), city (1987 pop. 646,163), capital of Mali and of its Bamako region, SW Mali, on the Niger River. It is the nation's administrative center, as well as a river port, a junction on the Dakar-Niger RR, and a major regional trade center. Manufactures include textiles, processed meat, and metal goods. citizens at their dignified best, alongside photographs by Malick Sidibe, whose portraits of stylish Malians in moments of leisure bring out the increasing autonomy of the younger generation in the '60s and '70s.
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