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Ming Smith's poetic and experimental images are icons of twentieth-century African American life. One of the greatest artist-photographers working today, Smith moved to New York in the 1970s and began to make images charged with startling beauty and spiritual energy. This long-awaited monograph brings together four decades of Smith's work, celebrating her trademark lyricism, distinctively blurred silhouettes, dynamic street scenes, and deep d...

This is a long-awaited monograph on photographer Ming Smith, whose poetic and experimental images have become icons of twentieth-century African American life. In the early 1970s, when African American photographers were keenly aware of their isolation in a field dominated by white men, two collectives held a joint meeting. The result was the formation of a more robust group, Kamoinge-which in Kenya's Kikuyu language means a group of people ac...