Research Catalog

Title

Zanele Muholi : somnyama ngonyama = hail the dark lioness / Renée Mussai in conversation with Zanele Muholi ; with additional contributions by Unoma Azuah [and 23 others].

Author

Muholi, Zanele

Publication

• New York, NY : Aperture, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mussai, Renée
• Azuah, Unoma Nguemo

Description

209 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits; 36 cm

Summary

"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 reject 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 racisms. 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."--Amazon.com.

Alternative Title

• Zanele Muholi : hail the dark lioness
• Somnyama ngonyama
• Hail the dark lioness

Subject

• Muholi, Zanele > Self-portraits
• Muholi, Zanele > Interviews
• Muholi, Zanele
• Women, Black > Pictorial works
• Women photographers > Pictorial works
• Lesbians, Black > Pictorial works
• Portrait photography
• Photography, Artistic
• Black people in art
• Women, Black
• Women photographers

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works.
• Self-portraits.
• Illustrated works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Bester / Tamar Garb -- Inkanyiso I, Paris, 2014 / Sophie Hackett -- Zanele Muholi's Somnyama Ngonyama / Jackie Mondi -- Different (black) mothers / Andiswa Dlamini -- Unsung warrior / Mapula Lehong -- On Sebenzile and Sibusiso / Oluremi C. Onabanjo -- Celebrate / Thelma Golden -- SOLD / Pumelela "Push" Nqelenga -- Zanele Muholi's active gaze / Deborah Williams -- Rupturous desires: queer bodies are made from mountains / Ama Josephine Budge -- Thembeka II / Fariba Derakhshani -- Does the water turn brown when you wash? Yes, baby bitch, and does it turn red when you wash your hands? / Milisuthando Bongela -- On Basizeni XI: an epistle in fragments / Renée Mussai -- Blackness / Napo "Popo" Masheane -- Sameness and difference in Zonk'zizwe / Ruti Talmor -- Dudlu Ntomb' Emnyama / Christie van Zyl -- When we lay down / Carla Williams -- Self-gaze: Zanele Muholi / Unoma Azuah -- Black and white / Sindiwe Magona -- Dark Magus / Hlonipha Mokoena -- Muholi and Dolly / Cheryl Clarke -- On Thembeka I / Christine Eyene -- Bona, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2015 / Peace Kiguwa -- Heeding the dark lioness's call / M. Neelika Jayawardane -- Archive of the self / Renée Mussai in conversation with Zanele Muholi.

Call Number

Sc+ G 18-60

ISBN

• 9781597114240
• 1597114243

LCCN

2017957447

OCLC

1007311186

Author

Muholi, Zanele, photographer, artist, interviewee.

Title

Zanele Muholi : somnyama ngonyama = hail the dark lioness / Renée Mussai in conversation with Zanele Muholi ; with additional contributions by Unoma Azuah [and 23 others].

Publisher

New York, NY : Aperture, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Mussai, Renée, interviewer.

Azuah, Unoma Nguemo, contributor.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 18-60