Enwezor, Okwui and Isolde Brielmaier — Zwelethu Mthethwa

New York, Aperture Foundation, 2010. Hardcover. Oblong, color-photographic boards with white lettering. Matching dj. Bronze end papers. 119 pp. with color photographs throughout. This is the first major monography of Mthethwa's work, whose extraordinary large-scale images address the economic and political reality of present-day South Africa. Exhibited and collected world-wide, Mthethwa's photographs provide a perspective on the realities of postapartheid life that is both fresh and essential, portraying rural immigrants on the margins of South African cities and revealing the efforts of his subjects to maintain their cultural identities through their choices in clothing and the decoration of their dwellings and places of worship. Includes an essay by Okwui Enwezor, an interview by Isolde Brielmaier, and a professional biography. As New .