01/26/2015 6:30pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037, United States
Inspired by Deborah Willis’s book, Reflections in Black, filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris casts a broad net with Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People and begins with his family album. The film is a cornucopia of Americana that reveals deeply disturbing truths about the history of race relations while expressing joyous, life-affirming sentiments about the ability of artists and amateurs alike to assert their identity through the photographic lens. A conversation moderated by Shola Lynch with Dr. Deborah Willis and and Thomas Allen Harris will follow the screening.
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