PHOTOGRAPHER

Malick Sidibé

1935 - 2016

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Malick Sidibé (1935 – 14 April 2016) was a Malian photographer from a Fulani (Fula) village in Soloba, who was noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako, Mali. Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, and was a well-known figure in his community. In 1994 he had his first exhibition outside of Mali and received much critical praise for his carefully composed portraits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malick Sidibé has received more than 152,543 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Malick Sidibé is the 122nd most popular photographer (down from 100th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Mali (down from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Malian Photographer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Malick Sidibé ranks 122 out of 148. Before him are Martha Cooper, Sally Mann, Rineke Dijkstra, Francesca Woodman, David LaChapelle, and Ellen von Unwerth. After him are Graciela Iturbide, Thomas Struth, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Sean Flynn, Ilse Bing, and Milton H. Greene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Malick Sidibé ranks 394. Before him are Herb Kohl, Carlo Facetti, Jim Dine, John Cordts, Jadwiga Barańska, and Roberto Sosa. After him are David Pegg, Barry McGuire, Tatiana Zatulovskaya, José Luandino Vieira, Türkan Saylan, and Gerald R. Molen. Among people deceased in 2016, Malick Sidibé ranks 394. Before him are Michel Rousseau, Bob Baetens, Tapio Mäkelä, Alexis Arquette, Rune Larsson, and Alberto Sainz. After him are José Luis Artetxe, Erol Keskin, Stanley Mandelstam, Halfdan T. Mahler, Gottfried Honegger, and David Margulies.

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In Mali

Among people born in Mali, Malick Sidibé ranks 26 out of 72. Before him are Yambo Ouologuem (1940), Modibo Keita (1942), Moctar Ouane (1955), Assimi Goïta (1983), Mahamadou Diarra (1981), and Choguel Kokalla Maïga (1958). After him are Toumani Diabaté (1965), Modibo Sidibé (1952), Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé (1948), Cheick Modibo Diarra (1952), Oumou Sangaré (1968), and Ousmane Issoufi Maïga (1945).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Mali

Among photographers born in Mali, Malick Sidibé ranks 1. 

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