Ahead of her first solo exhibition at a major institution, Ming Smith tells the backstories behind some of her greatest images.
“I was doing a series on Harlem Gardens. I had a friend, the late Joyce Dukes, whom I told that I wanted to a project with nudes and visual femininity. I wanted a Black woman and I said, ‘Maybe next year,’ and she says, ‘Well, I’ll do it now. I’ll do a nude for you.’ It was very spiritual, actually, the photographing of her. A young man was sitting on the fence and he came up and said, ‘That was the most beautiful experience to watch you photograph.
“I think this is kinda funny because we all know about the Middle Passage, but there was a Senegalese travel guide and I told her, I’m new in the world, and I asked about polygamy. There was a lot of political unrest and American Black men were saying that they believed in polygamy because that’s what they did in Africa. I was very curious about what she thought of that, and she told me ‘We don’t play that!’ That’s the old way.
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