Somnyama ngonyama : hail the dark lioness / Zanele Muholi.
Publisher: New York : Aperture, 2018Description: 212 pages : illustrations ; 36 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43522ISBN: 9781597114240 (hbk.) :Contained works: Muholi, Zanele. Works. SelectionsSubject(s): Muholi, Zanele -- Self-portraits | Photography, Artistic | Women, Black, in art | PhotographyDDC classification: 779 MUH LOC classification: TR680Summary: This volume includes 100 self-portraits created by one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. In each of the images, Muholi drafts material props from her immediate environment in an effort to reflect her journey, explore her own image and possibilities as a black woman in today's global society, and - most important - to speak emphatically in response to contemporary and historical rascisms.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Reference Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 779 MUH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 113260 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"These feel like images you might have dreamed, both of the kind that slip away and the ones you manage to keep tenuously in your grasp, slippery, otherworldly. . . . Before our eyes, Zanele Muholi transforms into a mother, a domestic worker, an Afrofuturist, an oracle. It's fiction and it is not."--Yrsa Daley-Ward, The New York Times Book Review
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi's evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi's immediate environment. A powerfully arresting collection of work, Muholi's radical statements of identity, race, and resistance are a direct response to contemporary and historical racisms. As Muholi states, "I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces--brave enough to create without fear of being vilified. . . . To teach people about our history, to rethink what history is all about, to reclaim it for ourselves--to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back."
With more than twenty written contributions from curators, poets, and authors, alongside luxurious tritone reproductions of Muholi's images, Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is as much a manifesto of resistance as it is an autobiographical, artistic statement.
This volume includes 100 self-portraits created by one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. In each of the images, Muholi drafts material props from her immediate environment in an effort to reflect her journey, explore her own image and possibilities as a black woman in today's global society, and - most important - to speak emphatically in response to contemporary and historical rascisms.
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