Thomas Allen Harris’ "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" makes it broadcast premiere tonight, Monday, February 16, on PBS, from 10pm – 11:30pm ET, as an Independent Lens selection.
This is the story of the pioneering African-American photographers — men and women, celebrated and anonymous — who have recorded the lives and aspirations of generations, from slavery to the present. By Thomas Allen Harris.
The documentary begins with a memory. It’s the kind of memory that most black people, in one way or another, can recall: the moment when we realized we were black, and that, somehow, being black was…
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