Dakar Roadside with Figures, Senegal, 1972

Aperture is pleased to present an exclusive limited-edition print by Ming Smith, which is featured in Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph (2020). The monograph is the first to bring together four decades of the artist’s work, celebrating her trademark lyricism, distinctively blurred silhouettes, dynamic street scenes, and deep devotion to theater, music, poetry, and dance. This iconic image of a man seen from a distance captures the essence of Smith’s artistic vision, exuding momentum and spiritual energy. The edition is limited to thirty signed and numbered copies and five artist’s proofs. Proceeds from this print sale directly support the artist as well as Aperture’s publishing, educational, and public programs.

Dakar Roadside with Figures, Senegal, 1972
Edition of 30 and 5 artist’s proofs
Archival pigment print
11 x 14 in. (matte presentation)
Signed and numbered by the artist
Price to increase as edition sells

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Ming Smith was born in Detroit and raised in Columbus, Ohio. A self-taught artist and former model, in the 1970s, she published her early work in The Black Photographers Annual. Smith’s work has been collected by and presented in major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; Brooklyn Museum; National Museum of African American History and Culture, and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; and Serpentine Galleries, and Tate Modern, London. Beginning in 2017, her work was included in the celebrated traveling exhibitions We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 and Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, as well as in Arthur Jafa’s exhibition A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions, which traveled from London to Berlin, Prague, Stockholm, and Porto, Portugal. In 2019, Smith’s solo exhibition with Jenkins Johnson Gallery was awarded the Frieze Stand Prize at Frieze New York. Smith lives and works in New York.