Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama - Hail the Dark Lioness (Hardcover)

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 todays 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.'

Hardcover. English. Aperture. 2018. ISBN: 9781597114240. 212 pp. Good but the black cloth spine ribbon is a little worn, otherwise a good copy. Book No: 2506157