
Ming Smith, In the Presence of Spirit
- Publisher
- Dashwood Books and Speciwomen
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9780999124567
- Specifications
- Hardcover with folded poster
192 pages
24.5 x 30 cm
First edition
Design by Brian Paul Lamotte
Contributions by Arthur Jafa, Fred Moten, Namwali Serpell, Jacqueline Woodson
The first monograph presenting the color photographs of a Detroit-born, Harlem-based artist widely recognized as a foundational figure in American photography. Only a handful of her images in color have ever been seen: the selection here was compiled by digitizing an archive of thousands of color transparencies and negatives shot in parallel with her celebrated black-and-white work. It surveys the full scope of her practice: early family pictures, decades spent documenting major figures in jazz, dance, and theater, experimental plays of abstraction, and painted interventions on her own prints, tracing the formal experimentation that made her a pioneer.