Ming Smith

Acid Rain (“Mercy, Mercy Me”, Marvin Gaye)
1977, printed 2020

A silhouette of people standing at a street corner with a "DON'T WALK" sign illuminated above them against a twilight sky. The scene is enveloped in a haze, possibly from steam or smoke, with a bright light source at the bottom creating a sparkling effect. The image has a grainy, film-like quality and is framed with a white border.
A silhouette of people standing at a street corner with a "DON'T WALK" sign illuminated above them against a twilight sky. The scene is enveloped in a haze, possibly from steam or smoke, with a bright light source at the bottom creating a sparkling effect. The image has a grainy, film-like quality and is framed with a white border.

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Date
1977, printed 2020

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Inkjet print

Dimensions
Sheet: 32 7/8 × 44in. (83.5 × 111.8 cm) Image: 24 1/4 × 36in. (61.6 × 91.4 cm)

Accession number
2021.75

Edition
1/7

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Ming Smith

API
artworks/64300

Ming Smith
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