Untitled

Seydou Keïta · 1954

Before you is Untitled — a photograph by the Malian artist Seydou Keïta, nineteen fifty-four. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray.

Medium Gelatin silver print, printed later · Dimensions Image: 46 15/16 × 65 7/8" (119.2 × 167.3 cm) Sheet: 49 7/8 × 71 11/16" (126.7 × 182.1 cm) Frame: 55 1/4 × 74 1/4 × 1 1/2" (140.3 × 188.6 × 3.8 cm) · Credit The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection. Gift of Jean Pigozzi

Hanging beside it in The Paul J. Sachs Galleries: Untitled from the series African Spirits

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], Les musiciens (The Musicians), Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s), The Country Sociable - New England - 1915

More by Seydou Keïta here: Untitled (Bamako), Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled