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Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a 2014 documentary film directed by Thomas Allen Harris. It is inspired by Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present by Deborah Willis, who also produced the film.
Aug 27, 2014 · Thomas Allen Harris. In telling this story and exploring its meanings, Harris’ well-crafted film uses interviews with a number of historians and black photographers. But its greatest asset is the trove of photographs it marshals.
Jan 17, 2014 · Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People: Directed by Thomas Allen Harris. With Arthé Anthony, Anthony Barboza, Hugh Bell, David G. Berger. A film that explores how African American communities have used the camera as a tool for social change from the invention of photography to the present.
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- Documentary, Family, History
- Thomas Allen Harris
- 2014-01-17
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly:...
Jan 9, 2014 · The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the ...
- 2 min
- 23.1K
- Family Pictures USA
Aug 26, 2014 · To describe Thomas Allen Harris’s “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” as a history of African-American photography would be accurate but incomplete.
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is the first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
