Alioune Bâ (born 1959) is a

Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs. Duties and types of photograp ...

. Bâ was born in

Bamako Bamako is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern part of the country. Bamak ...

. 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, and others. With a text by Érika Nimis. In French and English.

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Biography of Alioune Bâ
1959 births Living people Malian photographers People from Bamako 20th-century photographers 21st-century photographers 21st-century Malian people {{Mali-bio-stub