Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama - AZUAH, UNOMA

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama Hail the Dark Lioness includes one hundred 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. As she states I am producing this photographic document to encourage people to be brave enough to occupy spaces brave enough to create without fear of being vilified. . . . To teach people about our history to re-think what history is all about to re-claim it for ourselves to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back. More than twenty curators poets and authors offer written contributions that draw out the layers of meaning and possible readings to accompany select images. Powerfully arresting this collection is as much a manifesto of resistance as it is an autobiographical artistic statement.

TITLE: Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama

AUTHOR: AZUAH, UNOMA

SKU: 9781597114240

PUBLISHER: Aperture

DATE PUBLISHED: 28/06/2018

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 212

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 264 mm x 356 mm

WEIGHT: 1720 gr