Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers And The Emergence Of A People

This is a wonderful film that thoughtfully showcases the photographic images of Black America from the beginning of photography to the present.  How these images have shaped how we view a people and what it means to be Black in all it's complexities and social implications, are all explored in this documentary, as told through the words of Black photographers of both gender throughout the history of photography.  Something so powerful as image, that shapes every facet of our society, is given great justice in this multi-narrative film, that even this one film only scratches the surface. What I found lacking in this exposition, however, was how modern technology has drastically changed the narrative of Black photography even further and all the implications of that left un-examined.