This wonderful documentary of Thomas Allen Harris and Deborah Willes is travelling around the country. And abroad.
Look for listings or go to website of Chimpanzeeproductions.
Through A Lens Darkly is a two-hour film that will explore 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 .
Through A Lens Darkly is inspired by Dr. Deborah Willis’s ground breaking book Reflections in Black.