Alioune Bâ (born 1959) is a
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mal ...
an
photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographers
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Bâ was born in
Bamako
Bamako ( bm, ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ ''Bàmakɔ̌'', ff, 𞤄𞤢𞤥𞤢𞤳𞤮 ''Bamako'') is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2009 population of 1,810,366 and an estimated 2022 population of 2.81 million. It is located on the Niger Rive ...
. He started working for the Musée National du Mali (National Museum of Mali) in 1983. His art focuses on the body,
in particular the hands and feet of his subjects.
Publications
Publications by Bâ
*''Alioune Ba Photographe.'' Les Carnets de la Création. Montreuil, France: De l Oeil, 1985. . With an essay by Claudie Rieu, "Le bruissement du monde".
Publications with contributions by Bâ
*''Photographes de Bamako: de 1935 à nos jours.'' Collection Soleil. Paris: Revue Noire, 1989. . Photographs by Bâ, Mountaga Dembélé,
Seydou Keïta, Félix Diallo, Sakaly, AMAP, Emmanuel Daou, Abdourahmane Sakaly,
Malick Sidibé
Malick Sidibé (1935 – 14 April 2016) was a Malian photographer noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, Mali, and was a well-known fig ...
, and others. With a text by Érika Nimis. In French and English.
References
External links
Biography of Alioune Bâ
1959 births
Living people
Malian photographers
People from Bamako
20th-century photographers
21st-century photographers
21st-century Malian people
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