Zwelethu Mthethwa

This volume offers a concise introduction to the large-format color photography of Zwelethu Mthethwa (born 1960), South Africa's most prominent living photographer. Mthethwa's portraits of Cape Town citizens emphasize qualities of defiance, pride and endurance of hardship, with what the "New Yorker" described as "an energetic ambivalence between documentary photography and fine-art portraiture."