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10 Works to Know in "View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection" at the Met

Artur Walther donated over 6,500 photographs and time-based works spanning global photographic history, emphasizing series, African photography, modernist, Japanese, Chinese, and vernacular images.
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A lens on West Africa - discover the portraits of photographer Seydou Keita

Celebrated as one of the most outstanding 20th-century photographers, Keïta ran a photography studio in the Malian capital, Bamako, between the late 1940s and early 1960s, where he shot black and white portraits of fashionably dressed people, with the patterned backdrops that he is perhaps best known for. He also documented the social and political landscape in pre- and post-independence Mali. That work was introduced to the West in the early 1990s, first anonymously in New York and then later identified, in group and solo exhibitions
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