Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

6.2 2014 92 min
Documentary

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…

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Thomas Allen Harris
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Thomas Allen Harris

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