Ming Smith, “Kites Inside, Columbus, Ohio” (ca. 1972), vintage gelatin silver print mounted on board, printed ca. 1972, image size: 4 x 5 3/4 inches, mount size: 11 x 14 inches, signed and titled by ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum (IAAM) has announced a special exhibition by legendary photographer Ming Smith to be featured in the museum until early spring. Ming ...

The word "photography," in its literal translation from Greek, means something like “drawing with light.” The best of Ming Smith’s photographs, however, seem to draw against light. They feed off of ...

When Ming Smith was a little girl in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1950s, she brought her mother’s camera to her first day of kindergarten. There, she took pictures of students at her predominantly white ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The museum will host a retrospective exhibition by American photographer Ming Smith, who ...

Photograph by Chanell Stone, courtesy of Aperture. Smith wears Altuzarra ‘Barbara’ Coat, and Hermes Beauty Rouge Hermès in Rouge H. Ming Smith, Self-portrait, ca ...

The future is always uncertain as an endless list of variables and their unendingly chaotic interactions create an ever-evolving image of what is to come. Efforts are made ceaselessly to parse through ...

NEW YORK — So many of the photographs in Ming Smith’s namesake show feel provisional, like one breath following another. That’s meant as praise. Life is provisional, and communicating a sense of that ...

Self-Portrait as Josephine (New York), 1986. Photo by Ming Smith; Courtesy of Nicola Vassell Gallery. Studio 54 was a beacon of decadence and—ultimately—a star-studded fiasco whose vintage, romantic ...

Ming Smith is known for her informal, in-action portraits of black cultural figures, from Alvin Ailey to Nina Simone and a wide range of jazz musicians. Ming’s career emerged formally with the ...