Sam Nhlengethwa
Pass Raid

Pass Raid

© 2003 Sam Nhlengethwa

Pass Raid
Pass Raid
ArtistSouth African, born 1955
CultureSouth African
Titles
  • Pass Raid
  • from the series Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties
Date2003
Place depictedSouth Africa ?
MediumPhotolithograph
DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 × 11 1/4 in. (20 × 28.6 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 number2011.1018
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIn his series Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties, Sam Nhlengethwa critically comments on the institutionalized racism and discrimination of apartheid in his native South Africa. To create these montages, Nhlengethwa noted, “I sourced material from the Drum magazine archives and I also looked through my own family albums. The use of my own archive was important because I wanted to reflect an intimacy and a familiarity that would make the images accessible.” The work blends together the personal and public to create searing, personal images of deep injustice.
Provenance[Florence Lynch Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition History"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
inscribed below image lower left in pencil: T.P.
Titled below image lower center in pencil: "PASS RAID"
numbered verso lower left in pencil: TAP 03-52
Signed and dated below image lower right in pencil: SAM NHLENGETHWA '03
Embossed lower right corner: [symbol for The Artists' Press, South Africa]

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