Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
332
ratings
7.2/10
|
Out of Print:
Future availability is unknown
|
on most orders of $75+
|
Brand New
|
DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2015
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Thomas Allen Harris | |
| Interviewee: | Carrie Mae Weems & Thomas Allen Harris | |
| Director of Photography: | Martina Radwan |
Entertainment Reviews:
61%
73%
With the thousand words vividly painted through each picture, we connect, identify and find solidarity.
Full Review
Los Angeles Times
[A]s a whole the documentary cannily juggles an overview of African-American history in general with the specifics of its photographic representation and talents.
Variety
Rating: 2.5/4 --
This is sound-bite cinema, revealing at times, but also frustratingly basic stuff.
Seattle Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Perhaps too ambitious in scope, a few truly powerful sequences still manage to elevate this historical overview of African-American photography above its uneven style.
Full Review
Nonfics
Mr. Harris’s film is a family memoir, a tribute to unsung artists and a lyrical, at times heartbroken, meditation on imagery and identity. The film is always absorbing to watch…
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Director Thomas Allen Harris has made an earnest, though often sloppy, documentary on the essential role imagery plays in shaping the narrative of a people.
Full Review
The Dissolve
This ambitious and heartbreaking documentary tackles no less mammoth a subject than the African-American identity as it exists in photographic imagery.
Full Review
Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Thomas Allen Harris' documentary THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE examines how images of African-Americans throughout history have affected black people's conception of themselves, and features interviews with a variety of African-American photographers who discuss how they have attempted to directly steer the course of that conversation with their work.
Keywords:
27%off
15%off
32%off
32%off
32%off
19%off
77%off
Product Info
- UPC: 720229916387
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item