Sam Nhlengethwa
Pass Raid

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

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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