Independent Lens - Season 16 Episode 9: Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
2015-02-16
- Documentary
For the last 170 years, pioneering African American photographers — men and women, celebrated and anonymous — have recorded the dramas and aspirations of generations. Through a Lens Darkly traces their spiritual transformation from slavery to economic mobility and social stability, and shows how these photographers helped their communities reclaim self-worth and humanity..
