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Zwelethu Mthethwa est un peintre et un photographe, et cela se voit. Dès les premières photographies qu'il a produites, il disait son inclination pour des compositions soignées et pour la couleur toujours adroitement maîtrisée, dosée, la couleur comme expression d'une Intimité avec l'âme. La couleur comme lumière. Et ses images trahissaient d'emblée les éléments d'un classicisme très élaboré. Des tableaux, comme on n'en fait plus depuis des siècles. Des tableaux qui devraient venir habiter les galeries d'hypothétiques maisons de famille, des châteaux, des manoirs. Des tableaux qui, de la même manière que ces gens qui semblent habiter un passé qui prolonge la mémoire, se projettent dans le futur, c'est-à-dire dans l'immortalité.
Uno de los fotógrafos sudafricanos más importantes de la actualidad.
Zwelethu Mthethwa's large scale portraits often portray rural immigrants on the margins of South African cities, revealing the efforts his subjects make to maintain their cultural identities through their choices in clothing, and the decoration of their dwellings and places of worship. Mthethwa also addresses the economic and political reality of present day South Africa.
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 landscape and labor issues. Mthethwa's work challenges the conventions of both Western documentary work and African commercial studio photography, marking a transition away from the visually exotic and diseased--or "Afro-pessim...
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Coincidiendo con la retrospectiva en Nueva York de la gran fotógrafa Norteamericana, el libro recoge tanto su trayectoria en blanco y negro como en Color.
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Comprises a selection of photographs from the series The Brave Ones and The End of an Era. The Brave Ones is a series of portraits - often, group portraits - of young men from the Shembe Church group during their annual pilgrimage in Kwa-Zulu Natal. The End of an Era is interior "still life" photography set in Johannesburg's hostels for migrant male labourers.