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

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Name: THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE

Country: USA

Year of publication: 2014

Format: digital

Color: color

Language : OF m. dt. UT

Duration: 90 Minuten

Direction: Harris, Thomas Allen

Abstract

The documentary THROUGH A LENS DARKLY examines the significance of photography and black photographers for the identity, the hopes and the struggle for equality of Afro-Americans. Ever since the beginnings in the 1840s, images by black photographers have proved instrumental in social change as

the fi lm documents, using a remarkably rich archive of historical photographs and gripping conversations, and at the same time providing a critical review of the last 175 years in US history from an Afro-American perspective.

Filmmaker, producer, author, photographer and lecturer Thomas Allen Harris grew up in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and New York. His documentaries address historic and current topics of the African diaspora in North and South America and its relationship with Africa. In addition to being screened at festivals around the globe, they are also shown on television as well as in museums and galleries. They have won him awards such as

the United States Artist Award as well as grants from the likes of the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation and the Paul Robeson Fund.