"Ming Smith Photographs:1978 – 2010,” a captivating exhibition that spans three decades of documenting diverse people and cultures throughout the world. Ming’s provocative images demonstrate a keen eye and an inexhaustible interest and empathy for the human condition and the drama of life. ... Read more
“Ming Smith Photographs:1978 – 2010,” a captivating exhibition that spans three decades of documenting diverse people and cultures throughout the world. Ming’s provocative images demonstrate a keen eye and an inexhaustible interest and empathy for the human condition and the drama of life. Ming has said that her “affair” with the camera began early on “with images solidly entrenched in my heart.”
The late photographer Gordon Parks admired Ming’s work and once wrote, “Wondrous images keep cropping up, stuffing themselves into her sight. She grasps them and gives eternal life to things that might well have been forgotten.” Ming’s deceptively simple but evocative imagery hovers between figurative and abstraction as she documents people and life experiences — from storm clouds gathering over her hometown in the Midwest to such dramatic urban landscapes as Manhattan skyscrapers and Harlem sidewalks, awesome stone cathedrals in Europe and Latin America, Cairo’s crowded streets and bustling marketplaces in Senegal and Tokyo.
