Bester I, Mayotte, from the series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Black Lioness)

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

Bester I, Mayotte, from the series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Black Lioness)

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Bester I, Mayotte, from the series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Black Lioness),

2015

Zanele Muholi, born 1972, Umlazi, South Africa; active Cape Town and Durban, South Africa
2021-212

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Title
Bester I, Mayotte, from the series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Black Lioness)
Dates

2015

Maker
Zanele Muholi
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 70.5 × 50.5 cm (27 3/4 × 19 7/8 in.) sheet: 80 × 60.5 cm (31 1/2 × 23 13/16 in.) frame: 81.9 × 62.2 × 3.5 cm (32 1/4 × 24 1/2 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Christopher E. Olofson, Class of 1992
Object Number
2021-212
Place Made

Africa, South Africa

Culture
African, South African
Type
gelatin silver prints, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
portraits, fasteners

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

Bester I, Mayotte

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