Zanele Muholi
Sarah Allen and Yasufumi Nakamori
TATE
English
Artwork by Zanele Muholi.
Softcover
192 pages
245 x 170 mm
2020
ISBN 9781849766821
Created to accompany one of the most exciting exhibitions of 2020, this stunning paperback catalogue presents the full breadth of Muholi’s photographic and activist practice.
Richly illustrated, it includes images from the key series Muholi has produced over the past twenty years, as well as never-before-published and recent works. The exhibition book also features six newly commissioned essays exploring their work, as well as a full glossary and chronology.
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.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/photography-theory/products/zanele-muholi-exhibition-book-sarah-allen-yasufumi-nakamori)
About the Authors
Sarah Allen is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/photography-theory/products/zanele-muholi-exhibition-book-sarah-allen-yasufumi-nakamori)
Yasufumi Nakamori is Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/photography-theory/products/zanele-muholi-exhibition-book-sarah-allen-yasufumi-nakamori)
About the Artist
Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date.
Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities.
(source: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/zanele-muholi)
About the Publisher
Tate Publishing is a publisher of visual arts books, associated with the Tate Gallery in London, England. It was established in 1911; nowadays it is a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd, an independent company wholly owned by the Trustees of Tate, and is based at Tate Britain, Millbank, London.
tate.org.uk
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Publishing_Ltd)
