Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama - Hail the Dark Lioness

$37.50 at Seattle Art Museum.

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness features over ninety of Muholi’s evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi’s immediate environment. This publication contains more than twenty written contributions from curators, poets, and authors, alongside luxurious tritone reproductions of Muholi’s images.  Muholi uses portraiture as a form of exposure to disrupt the dominant images of black women in the media today and to bear witness to both the brutality and the…