Ming Smith: Invisible Man: Moma One on One Series Smith Ming
Ming Smith: Invisible Man: Moma One on One Series Smith Ming Oluremi C. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. Onabanjo…
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Ming Smith: Invisible Man: Moma One on One Series Smith Ming
Oluremi C. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. Onabanjo spotlights a single photograph by Ming Smith, celebrating her synesthetic range and acuity of vision "I am an invisible man.
I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me." These opening lines to Ralph Ellison's epochal 1952 novel Invisible Man served as the inspiration for a photographic series that Ming Smith made from 1988 through 1991. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. One particularly poignant image from this series, rendered in monochrome, is a moody street scene.
A sole figure occupies the center of the picture plane--head stooped, hands in pockets, striding down a snow-covered street. Illuminating the figure from behind, a line of street