Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a two-hour film that will explore 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.
Through A Lens Darkly Trailer
Award winning filmmaker, journalist, artist, and activist, Thomas Allen Harris, is currently in production with his fourth feature-length documentary, “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People.” Co-produced by noted scholar, curator, and author, Dr. Deborah Willis, “Through A Lens Darkly,” is the first documentary and multimedia outreach project that explores how African American communities have used the medium of photography to construct political, aesthetic, and cultural representations of themselves and their world.
The “Through A Lens Darkly” project is part of a new generation of interactive media that expands the boundaries of participatory filmmaking by using both traditional documentary and multimedia platforms to engage television and internet audiences in new, creative, and transformative ways.
What a powerful “Sneak Preview” I want MOOOOORE!!!! As a curator, poet, and a lover of the arts, not only does this speak to me personally I KNOW this needs to be SEEN in schools, communities, and in the living rooms of ALL. Let the dialogue/healing begin.
I hope you've mentioned Florestine Perrault Collins, the Creole photographer of New Orleans. Arthe Anthony has a new book out about her with terrific examples of Creole self-presentation in the Jim Crow world of the early 20th c. And Hi to Deborah Willis. We were in contact years ago about Jules Lion. Great work, everybody!
love this…need and want to see more. I am an aspiring black photographer.
Good day! I could have sworn I’ve been to this blog before
but after browsing through some of the posts
I realized it’s new to me. Anyways, I’m definitely happy I stumbled upon it and I’ll be book-marking it and
checking back regularly!