Ming Smith’s photographs capture Black cultural life with reverent glamour. Now, her Contemporary Art Museum solo show highlights 50 years of her work.
Ming Smith’s photographs capture Black cultural life with reverent glamour. Now, she has a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston highlighting five decades of her work.Ming Smith photographs legends. Nina Simone, Sun Ra, and Grace Jones — whom she met at a hair salon in both of their modeling days — to name a few. But a propensity towards jazz isn’t only present in her subjects, but in her form: Smith brings an off-the-cuff, improvisational immediacy to her subjects.
“A lot of these people in my photographs, it came out of just a natural love or fit towards them as artists,” Smith tells NYLON. “I photographed them out of love and respect, and I wanted the the younger generation to know who they are, to know who they were.” Jazz not only gives form to your work, but many of your subjects are also jazz musicians, so it works on multiple levels.
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