Ming Smith

Self Portrait as Josephine, New York
1986, printed 2020

A black and white artistic photograph featuring a woman in a dark strapless dress standing amidst a surreal setting with a leopard to her left and a figure with an owl's head to her right. The background has a metallic foil appearance, and the overall composition has a dreamlike, collage-like quality. The image is framed with a white border, and there is a signature at the bottom right corner.
A black and white artistic photograph featuring a woman in a dark strapless dress standing amidst a surreal setting with a leopard to her left and a figure with an owl's head to her right. The background has a metallic foil appearance, and the overall composition has a dreamlike, collage-like quality. The image is framed with a white border, and there is a signature at the bottom right corner.

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Date
1986, printed 2020

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Inkjet print

Dimensions
Sheet: 35 1/2 × 24in. (90.2 × 61 cm) Image: 26 1/4 × 18in. (66.7 × 45.7 cm)

Accession number
2021.77

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/64303

Ming Smith
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