Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People 2014 123movies

Watch: Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: The film explores the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. The dramatic arch is developed as a visual narrative that flows through the past 160 years to reveal black photography as an instrument for social change, an African American point-of-view on American history, and a particularized aesthetic vision.
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	7.1/10 Votes: 180
	63% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 4 Popularity: 1.4 | TMDB

Reviews:

An extraordinary documentary and photographic odyssey
Thank you Thomas Allen Harris. I saw your film last night and the theatre was packed with an incredibly diverse crowd of native people, black and white folk, students, educators, an Italian playwright, old couples, interracial couples, lgbt community, elders… people sighing, cringing, crying, sitting on the edge of their seats, eyes transfixed to the screen. This is an extraordinary documentary. Shifting the gravitational field and critical frame of how we see ourselves and our shared history. An excavation of countless unseen images and unacknowledged photographers, a massive archive from the Civil War, Reconstruction and Civil Rights eras…It was so heart-felt. So brave. Raw. Tender. Vulnerable. Relentless. It’s challenging to articulate everything I felt while watching this film. But I just want to thank you for opening your journey to us. For creating epiphanies in our eyes, hearts and minds. For weaving together so many lost stories and lives. For your ambition, passion and breathtaking skill. For illuminating the invisible, unseen and unheard.

This beautiful film was made with love!
This documentary is a surprising blend of art history, personal essay, and social critique. You’ll learn about many photographers, including some you may not already know. There are interviews with (or remarks about) many artists, including James VanDerZee, the celebrated photographer of the Harlem Renaissance; Gordon Parks, whose great images from Life magazine will be familiar to many; Carrie Mae Weems; Lyle Ashton Harris; Glenn Ligon; and Renee Cox, among others. There are also interviews with historians such as Robin D. G. Kelley. In total, the interviewees offer many insightful remarks about what photography is, and what it can do. Seeing so many unfamiliar and, in most cases, beautiful images, from the time when photography began up to the present, you are sure to be touched and amazed. And the director’s personal story will move you, too. This thoughtful film is a treasure, not to be missed!

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Original Language en
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Status Released
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Genre Documentary, Family, History
Director Thomas Allen Harris
Writer Thomas Allen Harris, Paul Carter Harrison, Don Perry
Actors Arthé Anthony, Anthony Barboza, Hugh Bell
Country United States
Awards 5 wins & 3 nominations
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