| #2146902 in Books | Aperture | 2010-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 12.20 x.90 x10.30l,3.10 | File type: PDF | 120 pages | ||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Important images, but imperfect book|By Sydney D. Thompson|It's great to see the excellent work of Mthethwa in print. The digital color separations are uneven in quality: some are excellent, but many show digital artifacts (not seen in earlier reproductions of work in other books) that compromise artistic expression. The final essay strains for effect and appears to be a bit||"Zwelethu Mthethwa made a conscious decision to shoot South African black rural and township society in vibrant colour. While his contemporaries focused on gritty, often polarising black and white reportage, his Interiors series (1995-2005) broke down boundari
Since Apartheid's fall in 1994, South African photography has exploded from the grip of censorship onto the world stage. A key figure in this movement is Zwelethu Mthethwa, whose portraits powerfully frame black South Africans as dignified and defiant individuals, even under the duress of social and economic hardship. Photographing in urban and rural industrial landscapes, Mthethwa documents a range of aspects in South Africa, from domestic life and the environment to la...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Zwelethu Mthethwa | Zwelethu Mthethwa, Isolde Brielmaier, Okwui Enwezor. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
