Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
The film explores the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. The dramatic arch is developed as a visual narrative that flows through the past 160 years to reveal black photography as an instrument for social change, an African American point-of-view on American history, and a particularized aesthetic vision.
Director
Images
Recommended
Naqoyqatsi
Come See Me in the Good Light
Fuck
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
LA Originals
Heart of a Dog
I Am Heath Ledger
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Tongues Untied
Nothing Like a Dame
Cameraperson
Baraka
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
God Grew Tired of Us
42 Up
Finding Vivian Maier
More like this
The Rembrandt Association, an exceptional year
Pictures at an Exhibition
I Will Dance
Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime
Mi Vida Me Pasa
Where do they all go?
Vízie z Inferna-umenie proti zabúdaniu
Das Gefühl des Augenblicks
Freeports: The Beauty Of Tax Free Storage
Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
FIGHT until the snow melts
Four Faces of the Moon
Miss Interpreted
Keeping Christmas
Gloria's Call
Henri Dauman: Looking Up
Movie & TV metadata from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.