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

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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. This epic tale poetically moves between the present and the past, through contemporary photographers and artists whose images and stories seek to reconcile legacies of pride and shame while giving voice to images long suppressed, forgotten, and hidden from sight.... (Full plot summary below)

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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. This epic tale poetically moves between the present and the past, through contemporary photographers and artists whose images and stories seek to reconcile legacies of pride and shame while giving voice to images long suppressed, forgotten, and hidden from sight.

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Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Drew HuntThis ambitious and heartbreaking documentary tackles no less mammoth a subject than the African-American identity as it exists in photographic imagery.
The New York Times - 8/10 by A.O. ScottAt times, Mr. Harris’s voice-over narration veers into academic abstraction or lyrical emotionalism in ways that undercut the eloquence of the images, but over all he is a wise and passionate guide to an inexhaustibly fascinating subject.
RogerEbert.com - 8/10 by Godfrey CheshireIn 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.
Christian Science Monitor - 8/10 by Peter RainerThe implicit question overhanging the film: Is the political impetus to present only “positive” imagery of black people an injustice to the fullest range of their experience?
Los Angeles Times - 8/10 by Martin TsaiSome of the black photographers' works here are breathtaking — and may prompt you to hunt down Willis' book for the coffee table. But there's so much more to take away from Harris' documentary.
Glenn Dunks - 8/10 by Glenn DunksI just wish that, given it's a film about art, Through a Lens Darkly had taken a bit more of an artistic method to its message.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Ann HornadayThe power of images — to distort, define, denigrate and celebrate — emerges with clarity and force in Through a Lens Darkly, a fascinating, visually stunning, emotionally devastating documentary by Thomas Allen Harris.
Seattle Times - 7/10 by John HartlThis is sound-bite cinema, revealing at times, but also frustratingly basic stuff.
Time Out - 6/10 by Keith UhlichThe survey the film provides is bracing, and there are plenty of talking heads to guide us through the kaleidoscope of imagery. Unfortunately, there’s also a public-television vibe to the proceedings that mutes the overall power. It’s essential info presented with little imagination.
Slant Magazine - 6/10 by Clayton DillardThomas Allen Harris's documentary consistently takes agency away from the art itself with a litany of talking heads.

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