CinemaOSMovie · 2014 · 1h 32m

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

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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.

Directed byThomas Allen Harris

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Released
Runtime
1h 32m
Language
EN
Released
August 27, 2014
Studios
K Period Media

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THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE - Official Trailer

THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE - Official Trailer

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Thomas Allen Harris
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