Discussions of West African portrait photography tend to gravitate towards the 1960s and '70s, the era of such well-known artists as Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and Samuel Fosso.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa, which draws its 80 works solely from the Met's collection, fleshes out a longer and more varied history of West African photo portraiture, including amateur and popular commercial practices that acted as precursors to the more acclaimed works of later decades.
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