Independent Lens (1999)
Season 16: Episode 9
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
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1999
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2025
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For the last 170 years, pioneering African American photographers — men and women, celebrated and anonymous — have recorded the dramas and aspirations of generations. Through a Lens Darkly traces their spiritual transformation from slavery to economic mobility and social stability, and shows how these photographers helped their communities reclaim self-worth and humanity.
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