Ming Breakfast: Grits and Scrambled Moments

A MING BREAKFAST: GRITS & SCRAMBLED MOMENTS, photography by Ming Smith with introduction by Gordon Parks, captions Albert Murray, preface Susan Kismaric of the Museum of Modern Art, & Deborah Willis, Curator of Photography, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. N.Y. James Baldwin Floating Over Harlems Sky, "Little Brown Baby Wis Spa'klin Eyes", An Afro-American Sailor Lost in Time At An Amusement Park, Grandma's Pallbearers, the Sadness at Alvin Haley's Funeral, David Murray in the Wings, Dextor Gordon in Paris, Black Nuns in Rome, Gordon Parks, Save the Children, Romare Bearden in Meditation are only a few of the 120 images in this 12" x 12" book. "Through a surrealist viewpoint she documents the alienation of individuals within the constructs of city living & at the same time celebrates the communal love & pride within those conditions. The result is the formation of a brilliantly sensitive vision of a fine photographer who has competently shared her visual message." ISBN 0-963466-0-7, FAX 201-509-1861.Smith, Ming is the author of 'Ming Breakfast: Grits and Scrambled Moments', published 1992 under ISBN 9780963466600 and ISBN 0963466607.