Ming Smith: The Invisible Man (MoMA One on One Series)

Ming Smith: The Invisible Man (MoMA One on One Series)
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
Author: Ming Smith
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Publication Date: 2022
Print Length: 48 pages
Language: English
Price: paid paid paid

Oluremi C. Onabanjo spotlights a single photograph by Ming Smith, celebrating her synesthetic range and acuity of vision.

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. 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. 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 lights exposes the outer edges of legs and feet, while the torso and head encased in a bulky winter coat seem to blend into the shadow of a looming building. Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere (1991) typifies Smith’s long-term engagement with the tensions that animate the African American experience. This latest volume in MoMA’s One on One series invites readers to perceive the subtle yet significant contributions of this Black woman photographer to the history of the medium.

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Rainer Zerback: Metamorphosis examines the evolving realities of rural life through a photographic study of the Swabian Alps, a region shaped by both deep-rooted traditions and rapid transformation. For many years, German photographer Rainer Zerback has focused on the relationship between people, space, and historical change, and this series continues that investigation with a measured and observant approach. Rather than presenting the countryside as a nostalgic refuge removed from modern pressu

Justine Tjallinks: Vision

Jul 2026 — Skira

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Justine Tjallinks: Vision

Justine Tjallinks: Vision brings together a series of carefully composed portraits that challenge conventional ideas of beauty, identity, and representation. Drawing inspiration from the rich visual traditions of Flemish painting, Dutch artist Justine Tjallinks creates images defined by controlled lighting, sculptural poses, and an extraordinary attention to texture and detail. Her photographs unfold slowly, inviting contemplation rather than instant consumption. Each portrait appears suspended

Robin Bernstein: Mapalakata

Jul 2026 — Gost Books

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Robin Bernstein: Mapalakata

GOST Books is delighted to launch Robin Bernstein’s debut photobook MAPALAKATA, a nuanced exploration of landscape, memory, and the layered histories embedded within Southern Africa’s terrain. MAPALAKATA engages with the landscape through a visual reassessment of Mpumalanga province, South Africa, a region positioned on the escarpment bordering Mozambique and Eswatini. The title, meaning “visitors,” is drawn from oral histories and was historically used to describe traders from the East who m

Dayanita Singh: Forget Me Knot

Jul 2026 — Steidl

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Dayanita Singh: Forget Me Knot

Dayanita Singh: Forget Me Knot continues Dayanita Singh’s long-standing exploration of archives, memory, and the physical life of photographs. Known for transforming the photobook into an object that can be handled, rearranged, and experienced like a portable exhibition, Singh approaches the archive not simply as a repository of information, but as a poetic structure shaped by absence, repetition, and time. In this new volume, she turns her attention to the cloth-bound bundles that fill India’s

Lynn Adler: And So We Moved to Petaca

Jun 2026 — UNM Press
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Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Lynn Adler: And So We Moved to Petaca

Lynn Adler: And So We Moved to Petaca documents a rare intersection of cultures in the early 1970s, when several counterculture families from San Francisco and New York City moved to Petaca, a small village in Northern New Mexico, to adopt a traditional Nuevomexicano way of life. The village, home to about fifty very traditional Hispano families with roots in the area stretching back over a century, had no schools, no hospital, no stoplights—only one church, one bar, one dry-goods store, and a s

Steve Schapiro: Jazz

Jun 2026 — ACC Art Books

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Steve Schapiro: Jazz

Steve Schapiro: Jazz brings to light a largely unseen archive of 1960s jazz photography taken just before Steve Schapiro’s breakthrough as one of the decade’s leading social documentary photographers. The book, titled Jazz: Best of the Apollo, Village Vanguard, and Riverside Sessions, gathers rare images from the Apollo Theatre, the Village Vanguard, and Riverside Records sessions, capturing the genre’s top figures during a golden period in New York. Schapiro, a Bronx native who began freelan

Frank Gohlke: Measure of Emptiness

Jun 2026 — Steidl

Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Frank Gohlke: Measure of Emptiness

Frank Gohlke: Measure of Emptiness returns to print as a quietly powerful meditation on the American landscape and the structures that define it. First published in 1992, the book gathers photographs made by Frank Gohlke between 1972 and 1977 across the vast expanse of the Great Plains. Moving from Minnesota to the Texas Panhandle, Gohlke focused on one recurring form: the grain elevator. These towering industrial buildings, stark and monumental against open skies, become the visual and symbolic

Bruce Davidson: Circus

Jun 2026 — Steidl
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Photographer Monographs and Art Books: Bruce Davidson: Circus

Bruce Davidson: Circus revisits one of the most compelling early chapters in the career of Bruce Davidson, offering a vivid journey into the world beneath the big top. Known for his deeply human approach to documentary photography and his long association with Magnum Photos, Davidson turns his lens here toward the circus, capturing not only spectacle but also the fragile, often overlooked lives that sustain it. Spanning work made between 1958 and 1967, the book gathers images that move between p
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