Photography

MoMA Positions Seydou Keïta's Studio Portraits as Pan-African Political Documents

MoMA's latest exhibition argues Seydou Keïta's 1950s Bamako portraits weren't just documentation—they were active instruments of Pan-African political imagination during the decolonial era.

MoMA

MoMA's Ideas of Africa Examines Portraiture as Political Strategy

MoMA pairs mid-century Bamako and Kinshasa studio photographers — Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, Jean Depara — with contemporary diasporic artists to argue that portraiture was always a political project, not a documentary one.

Culture

Wednesday Notes for September 25th, 2024

The Uristocrat Headlines for Wednesday, September 25th, 2024. This is an edition of Uristocrat Notes, a newsletter that explores what we are reading as it relates to cultural stories of the day.