Africa 50-70-ies in the lens Malick Sidibe

West Africa for a person is or national parks and tourist attractions, or endless war and starving children. Very rarely seen photographs reflecting different aspects of the life of the continent. In this sense, the pictures of the photographer Malick Sidibé from Mali will provide a unique opportunity to look at Africa with different eyes.
African state of Mali photographer filmed fashionable African youth 1950-1970-ies in elegant clothes, dancing trendy European dances, and denied the view of Africa as a continent starving children and their wild parents. It may seem that Sidibe avoided "truth of life" that are so fond of Western reporters - but he just showed the other side of the lives of Africans.

1. Malick Sidibé was born in 1935 in a family that speaks the language of Pul, a small village in Mali. He graduated from high school in 1952. After the recognition of his talent draftsman he was admitted to the Sudanese school artisans in Bamako, which he graduated from in 1955.

Malik decorate shop Gerard Gilyata "Photoservice" Gilyat and offered him a disciple. So Malik took up photography in 1956. He opened "Studio Malick" in 1958 in the center of Bamako Bagadadzhi, on 30th Street, where he now prints portraits and camera repairs