Zanele Muholi

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Zanele Muholi
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sarah Allen
By (author) Yasufumi Nakori
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 245,Width 170
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
ISBN/Barcode 9781849766821
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Illustrations 150 tritone and colour illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Tate Publishing
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publication Date 29 April 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Born in South Africa, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives beyond deviance or victimhood. Muholi's work challenges hetero-patriarchal ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as confident and beautiful individuals bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance and, frequently, violence. While Muholi's intimate photographs of others launched their international career, their intense self-portraits solidified it. The illustrations include images from the key series Muholi has produced over the past twenty years, as well as never-before-published and recent works. This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, presents the full breadth of Muholi's photographic and activist practice. It features six newly commissioned essays as well as a glossary and chronology.

Author Biography

SARAH ALLEN is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern. YASUFUMI NAKORI is Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.