The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection
In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
from 31/08/2015 to 03/01/2016
In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa presents 100 years of portrait photography in West Africa through nearly 80 photographs taken between the 1870s and the 1970s. These works, many of which are being shown for the first time, are drawn from the Metropolitan Museums Visual Resource Archives in the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with additions from the Department of Photographs.Seydou Keïta is among the featured photographers on exhibition.
Link to the exhibition website