Sam Nhlengethwa
Migrant Labourers

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Artist Sam Nhlengethwa(South African, born 1955)South African, born 1955

CultureSouth African

Titles

Migrant Labourers
from the series Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties

Date2003

MediumPhotolithograph

DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 11 1/4 in. (20.1 × 28.5 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 15 1/8 in. (49.8 × 38.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern in honor of Yasufumi Nakamori

Object number2011.1017

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIn
his series Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties,
Sam Nhlengethwa critically comments on the institutionalized injustice of
apartheid in his native South Africa. To create these montages, he drew from
the image archive of Drum magazine
(which began its publication in 1951 with a wide black readership) as well as
his own family photo albums.
Provenance[Florence Lynch Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition History"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2012.

"Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 27–November 8, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed in pencil, recto, below image left to right: T.P. “MIGRANT LABOURERS” SAM NHLENGETHWA '03
Embossed, recto, lower right corner: [symbol for The Artists' Press, South Africa]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: TAP 03-29

Signed and dated below image lower right in pencil: SAM NHLENGETHWA '03

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