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    As a model and a photographer, Ming Smith launched her career making images of beauty.

    Jun 09, 2020 2 minutes
    Nicole Acheampong

    “For me, my style was romantic,” says Ming Smith, on her days as a model in 1970s New York. “My eyes were romantic. A photographer told me that it was in my eyes. I didn’t know. I was young. He was right.”

    Smith was shy, spry, Ohio-bred. As a young girl, she  at the Serpentine Galleries in London.

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