Through a Lens Darkly Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014)

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 pointofview on American history and a particularized aesthetic vision