A Tactile Lens Prolonged via May 17, 2026 · Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum introduced at the moment the extension of Seydou Keïta:​ A Tactile Lens. The in style exhibition, initially scheduled to shut on March 8, 2026, will stay on view via Sunday, May 17, 2026.

The exhibition celebrates the artistry and legacy of studio photographer Seydou Keïta (Malian, ca. 1921–2001), who documented Malian society on the cusp of dramatic transformation. From the late Forties to early Nineteen Sixties, on the eve of independence, Keïta chronicled the class and class of his sitters’ self-expression throughout a pivotal second of nation-building.

A Tactile Lens options over 280 works, together with famend portraits, uncommon pictures, and never-before-seen negatives in addition to textiles, jewellery, clothes, and private objects that absolutely immerse guests in Keïta’s wealthy photographic panorama. The present brings collectively a outstanding vary of Keïta’s pictures, together with a beneficiant mortgage from the Keïta household of extraordinary, never-before-published works, which have been preserved and imaged by the Museum on the event of the exhibition.

Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens is organized by visitor curator Catherine E. McKinley with Imani Williford, Curatorial Assistant, Photography, Fashion, and Material Culture, Brooklyn Museum.

Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens is organized by visitor curator Catherine E. McKinley with Imani Williford, Curatorial Assistant, Photography, Fashion, and Material Culture, Brooklyn Museum.

Exhibition soundtrack created by Nile Rodgers and Chmba Chilemba.

Significant assist is offered by the Leonian Charitable Trust.

Generous assist is offered by Elizabeth and William Kahane and VLISCO.

We are grateful to all of the lenders for this exhibition, particularly The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection and the Seydou Keïta household, who had been passionate advocates and beneficiant lenders for this presentation.

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