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

      2014 1 hr. 30 min. Documentary List
      63% 19 Reviews Tomatometer 73% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris examines how photography has affected the lives of black Americans. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member America is hopelessly beautiful in these photos. America is hopelessly ugly in these pictures. It remains to us to choose which image to respect. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Zeba Blay Shadow and Act A history reaching far back into the past and shining a light on those who paved the way for everyone, all of us, to affirm our own identities through the images we take of ourselves and each other. Sep 14, 2022 Full Review Drew Hunt Chicago Reader This ambitious and heartbreaking documentary tackles no less mammoth a subject than the African-American identity as it exists in photographic imagery. Feb 20, 2015 Full Review Ann Hornaday Washington Post A fascinating, visually stunning, emotionally devastating documentary by Thomas Allen Harris. Rated: 3/4 Dec 11, 2014 Full Review Ray Pride Newcity Thomas Allen Harris' lush, lovely, loving Through a Lens Darkly chronicles the role of photography in a 170-year history of the lives of black Americans. A teeming abundance of stirring and often brilliant imagery by African-American artists. Sep 23, 2014 Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru Provocative and mildly engaging. It could have used a better organization of its wealth of facts. Rated: 7.12/10 Aug 29, 2014 Full Review David Noh Film Journal International It's all way too much, for in his desire to be comprehensive, Harris plumb forgets that less would have been more. Aug 27, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris examines how photography has affected the lives of black Americans.
      Director
      Thomas Allen Harris
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 18, 2017
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $65.2K
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