Studio Volta Photo (Special Edition)
Sory Sanlé
Studio Volta Photo (Special Edition)
Photographs: Sory Sanlé
Publisher: Sebastien Girard and Yossi Milo
76 pages
Pictures: 74
ISBN: 978-2-9534516-4-1
Price: 700 €
Comments: Spiral bounds, 33 x 25.5 cm, risograph printing. edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by the photographer. This special edition comes with a numbered and signed original gelatin silver print.
Born in 1943 in Nianiagara, Burkina Faso
Lives and works in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Ibrahima Sory Sanlé started his photographic career in Bobo-Dioulasso the very year his country became independent from France in 1960 under the name of République de Haute-Volta. As a young apprentice working with a Ghanaian boss, he learnt to work with a photographic chamber, before processing and printing his own pictures Like many African photographers of his generation, he chose the 6x6 format. He was privileged enough to document the fast evolution of his own city, Bobo-Dioulasso, then Haute-Volta's cultural and economic capital.
He captured the frontal collision between modern life and centuries-old traditions from this culturally rich and rural region.
He started his career by documenting highway wrecks in and around Bobo, travelling on motorbike all over the region. In the mid-1960's,
he opened up his own Volta Photo, soon to become the city's finest photo studio. Fully dedicated to his art and work, he followed his own rule : « the more you like something, the more you invest yourself in your passion ».
He worked as a reporter, a record sleeve illustrator, an official photographer but mostly as a clever studio photographer. Very active,
he portrayed Bobo-Dioulasso's people with wit, energy and sheer passion. His background paintings, be they a modern city, a beach walkboard, an airplane or an antique column were quite outstanding and unlike those of any other photographers in his own country.
Be they still or moving maliciously, his subjects illustrate in many ways the remoteness and melancholy of African cities landlocked deep in the hearf of the continent. They also convey some youthful exuberance in the wake of the first decades of African independences. His lens witfully reviewed the natural fusion operating between tradition and modernity. His black and white images truly magnified this golden era before 24x36 format and common color films added up to what William Eggleston called the « democratic forest », an endless dilution of the photographic view within public space.
Unknown, forgotten or unsung, Voltaic photography's golden age is fully embodied by Sory Sanlé whose images, preserved for many decades, display some unique social and cultural effervescence. Adorned with some natural elegance, his Bobo-Dioulasso's photographies stand in for Renoir's words according to which « the more local, the more universal ».
anonym author
more books by Sory Sanlé
-
Studio Volta Photo made by Sebastien Girard
by Sory Sanlé
sold -
Peuple De La Nuit (Special edition with print)
by Sory Sanlé
sold
more books tagged »risograph« | >> see all
-
PRINT ON DEMAND (LTD TO 130ex SIGNED)
by Manor Grunewald
Euro 40 -
Pulsing And Throbbing (Edt of 100)
by Paul Grund
Euro 50 -
I wish you were here (Only 40 copies)
by Eduardo Serafim
sold -
Studio Photo Nationale (Signed and Nbd)
by Samuel Fosso
sold -
808 (Signed copy)
by Christopher de Béthune
sold -
The Quickening (Edt ltd signed and numbered)
by Ying Ang
sold
more books tagged »africa« | >> see all
-
Two Men Arrive in a Village
by Jo Ractliffe
Euro 50 -
Flamboya (First edition)
by Viviane Sassen
sold -
du twist à Cocody ou l'art de la natte
by Diby Yao Christophe
sold -
Infra
by Richard Mosse
sold -
INVISIBLE CITIES
by Paul Seawright
Euro 35 -
Like Stains of Red Dirt
by Juan Orrantia
Euro 35
more books tagged »extremely limited« | >> see all
-
Day dreaming / Night clubbing (ONLY 70 copies )
by Philippe Morillon
sold -
IMAGERIE PAR RESONANCE MAGNETIQUE
by Thibault Tourmente
Euro 20 -
Tubes
by Maxime Verret
sold -
MONTRED (Signed edt of 10)
by Marius Dowlutrao
sold -
Panacea In Stasis (Edt of 20)
by Pablo Power
sold -
Contrefaisons (Edt of 25)
by EMSOC
sold
more books tagged »portraits« | >> see all
-
Sex, Drugs & Magick (book two) (signed)
by Gareth McConnell
sold -
The Pencil of the Sun, Okinawa & S.E. Asia
by Shomei Tomatsu
sold -
MASAHARU FUKUYAMA Portraits SHOJI UEDA Photographs
by Shoji Ueda
Euro 60 -
Portraits
by Richard Avedon
sold -
Sengoha/Après-guerre
by Shomei Tomatsu
Euro 300 -
Shadow Chamber (VINTAGE SIGNED)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 90
more books tagged »original print« | >> see all
-
Europea (Special edition with print)
by Joakim Kocjancic
Euro 350 -
I do not know, 我 不 知道 (Special edition w/ signed print)
by Alessandro Digaetano
sold -
Café Lehmitz (Special edition with print)
by Anders Petersen
sold -
MALIA (SIGNED AND NUMBERED, edt of 3)
by Laura Rodari
Euro 2000 -
Belleville sur un nuage (Special Edt/5 with 2 prints) LAST ONE!
by Collective
sold -
TOURMALINE (Special edition of 100 copies with print, numbered...
by Yusuf Sevinçli
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com