'To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes' (2020) Catalogue Sibusiso Amas

Sibusiso Amas

he qualified as a lithographer and graphic artist and settled in South Africa in 1956

"Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1938 in the former homeland of Venda where he still lives

1967) creates work that spans across all mediums

'To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes' (2020) Catalogue Sibusiso AmasFrom the publisher: "To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. Photographed by Joseph T. Zealy for Harvard professor Louis Agassiz in 1850, they were rediscovered at Harvards Peabody Museum in 1976. This