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The images prominently feature regal headdresses and other adornments crafted from repurposed materials, which resonate with historical and contemporary South African life. Staged in cities around the world, the series brings South African sociopolitical issues to light in global contexts.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tPushing the tonal range of gelatin silver prints to expressive ends, Muholi intentionally exaggerated\n\t\n\tthe darkness of their skin to critique the use of blackface by white performers and to address the exoticized images of Black people in the history of ethnographic photography. Muholi’s skin, which\n\n\tappears here a smooth obsidian, is broken by the white of their gaze. The unapologetic stare is a reminder of Muholi’s self-determined position as sitter, photographer, and author of their own narrative.\n</p>","remarks":"Princeton Collects PUAM-LABELS_G32_6x10_Batch1_FNLvendor-Day 1 cataloguing (group chat for 2021-212, -224, -226)"}],"datebegin":2014,"sortnumber":"2021  226","published_date":"2026-03-31 03:34:31.659093","objectid":138542,"dimensions":"image: 80 × 53.3 cm (31 1/2 × 21 in.)\r\nsheet: 90 × 63.3 cm (35 7/16 × 24 15/16 in.)\r\nframe: 91.6 × 65 × 3.5 cm (36 1/16 × 25 9/16 × 1 3/8 in.)","on_view":false}