A Black woman in a maid's uniform and a white headscarf sits on a hotel bed holding a pillow and looks out a window

© Zanele Muholi, courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York

A Black woman in a maid's uniform and a white headscarf sits on a hotel bed holding a pillow and looks out a window

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Massa and Minah VI, Brazil, from the series Massa and Minnah,

2010

Zanele Muholi, born 1972, Umlazi, South Africa; active Cape Town and Durban, South Africa
2021-222

Information

Title
Massa and Minah VI, Brazil, from the series Massa and Minnah
Dates

2010

Maker
Zanele Muholi
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 49.4 × 33 cm (19 7/16 × 13 in.) sheet: 60 × 43.3 cm (23 5/8 × 17 1/16 in.) frame: 63.2 × 46.4 × 4.5 cm (24 7/8 × 18 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Christopher E. Olofson, Class of 1992
Object Number
2021-222
Place Made

Africa, South Africa

Culture
South African, African
Type
chromogenic color prints, photographs
Techniques
chromogenic processes
Subject
pillows, beds (furniture), domestics

The artist; [Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa]; purchased by Christopher Olofson; given to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2021.

Massa and Minah VI, Brazil

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