On loan

  • On short term loan out for exhibition

Young Man with a Flower

Photograph
1958 (photographed), 2001 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Keita, Seydou (photographer)
Place of origin
Bamako (photographed)

Black and white photograph, quadrilateral rather than rectangular, depicting a young black man, with glasses, wearing a white jacket, with a silk handkerchief in the breast pocket, holding a flower.

Object details

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
TitleYoung Man with a Flower (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver print.
Brief description
Black and white photograph of a young black man wearing a white jacket and holding a flower; Seydou Keita, Mali, photographed 1958, printed 2001.
Physical description
Black and white photograph, quadrilateral rather than rectangular, depicting a young black man, with glasses, wearing a white jacket, with a silk handkerchief in the breast pocket, holding a flower.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 500mm (max)
  • Image height: 460mm (min)
  • Image width: 382mm
  • Sheet height: 605mm
  • Sheet width: 507mm
Gallery label
(07 03 2014)
Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2011-2012, label text :

Seydou Keïta (1921-2001)
Young Man with a Flower
1958, printed 2001

Born in Mali, Africa, Keïta began making studio
portraits of ordinary citizens in the capital, Bamako,
in 1948. By the mid-1950s, European clothes had
become fashionable among Mali’s city-dwellers.
Few people could afford to dress expensively, so
Keïta provided an elaborate wardrobe of clothes
and props for his sitters to choose from.

Gelatin silver print
Given by HackelBury Fine Art, London
Museum no. E.1419-2001
Credit line
Given by Hackelbury Fine Art Ltd.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1419-2001

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Record createdApril 10, 2002
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O64616/young-man-with-a-flower-photograph-keita-seydou/
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