Ming Smith: Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere (MoMA One on One Series)

The photographer Ming Smith has practiced her craft for more than fifty years, producing a body of work distinguished by its uncanny merging of subject and style. Her Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere (1991) was made in the depths of winter. Depicting a lone figure whose form dissolves into the ink-black shadows of a frigid city street at night, the photograph testifies to the artist's life long entanglement with the truths and tensions that animate African American experiences. This latest volume in MoMA's One on One series invites readers to discover, through the close reading of one picture, Smith's ethereal yer enduring contributions to the history of photography.