Studio portrait photographers Seydou Keita(b. 1921) and Malick Sidibe (b. 1935) each captured people of Bamako, Mali from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Seydou Keita

Seydou Keita
Seydou Keita

Malick Sidibe
Malick Sidibe
Recomended publications:
-Seydou Keita, Scalo, 1997
-Malick Sidibe: Photographs, Steidl/Hasselblad Center, 2004