Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

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A Film by Thomas Allen Harris

Inspired by the Book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, by Deborah Willis

Director, Producer, Writer Thomas Allen Harris

Producers Deborah Willis Ann Bennett Don Perry

Executive Producers Kimberly Steward John Singleton

Writers Don Perry Paul Carter Harrison

Editors K.A. Miille Matthew Cohn

Composer Vernon Reid

Additional Music and Opening Theme Composed and Performed by Miles Jay

Director of Photography Martina Radwan

Associate Producers Sabrina Hawkins Sheila Maniar

Sound Recordists J.T. Takagi Juan Rodríguez

Sound Designer and Mixer Kent Brown

Gaffer Luis Colon

Grips Jeremy Conley Jonathan Weaver Drew Eichman

Production Counsel Woo Jung Cho, PLLC

Animation/Special Effects Dan Callahan

On-line Editor and Colorist Jon Fordham

Post-Production Services Provided by Skywalker Sound

Editing Facility Provided by Tribeca All Access

Still Photographers Régine Romain Russell Frederick Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel Thomas Sayers Ellis Donald Andrew Agarrat Sonia Louise Davis Petrushka Bazin Larsen Victor Lloyd

Assistant Researchers Chloe Kurabi Sonia Louise Davis Dr. Mary Marshall Martha Mae Jones Alexander Johns

Bookkeepers Elizabeth Skinner Jessica Eubanks

Rights and Clearances Counsel Lisa A. Callif

Advisors David G. Berger Ron K. Brown Shiree Dyson Cheryl Finley Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Camara Dia Holloway Kellie Jones Nathan Nathanson Ann Shumard Greg Tate Mel Watkins Anne Wilkes Tucker Leslie Willis-Lowry Kerrie Cotten Williams Mary Yearwood

Archival Courtesy of: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Billy “Fundi” Abernathy African American Museum in Philadelphia Alabama Department of Archives and History Amistad Research Center, Tulane University Anthony Barboza Art Resource Associated Press Austin History Center Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles "Teenie" Harris Collection Michael Chambers Chester County Historical Society Cincinnati Museum Center Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson Corbis Photos Emory University, Manuscript and Rare Book Library Ernest Withers, Panopticon Collection Gertrude Erwin Virginia Fair Delphine Fawundu-Buford Mikki Ferrell George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film Georgia Department of Archives and History Getty Images Ted Gray Greg French Collection Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries Selma Heraldo Herman B Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington Historic New Orleans Collection International Center of Photography Institute for Arts & Media, College of Arts, California State University Northridge ITN Source/Fox Movietone Johnson Publications Albert S. Johnson, Jr. Phillip Richard Johnson, Jr. Leonard Davis Collection Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Life Magazine John Clark Mayden Melvin J. Zahnow Library Archives and Special Collections, Saginaw Valley State University Mississippi Department of Archives and History Montana Historical Society Moorland-Spingarn Research Center Museum of African American History, Smithsonian Institution National Center for Civil and Human Rights National Archives and Records Administration NAACP Nebraska State Historical Society New York Public Library NY1 Kambui Olujimi Onondaga Historical Association Pacifica Foundation Radio Larry Patterson Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Dawit Petros Photofest, Inc. Pitts Rivers Museum, Oxford University PH Polk Estate The Gordon Parks Foundation Rijksmuseum Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, NYPL Accra Shepp Beuford Smith Jamyl Smith Special Collections Library, Vassar College Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst State Archives of Florida Streamline Films T3 Media The Granger Collection The J. Paul Getty Museum The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at The University of Alabama Third Streaming The Tuskegee University Archives, Tuskegee University University of Delaware Valentine Richmond History Center Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University Rev. Malika Lee Whitney Jason Wright Young Robertson Collection

Photos by Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, Winifred Hall Allen, Vera Jackson, Louise E. Jefferson, Arthur C. Teal, and Joyce R. Wilson: Courtesy of “Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers” Collection of Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Fiscal Sponsors Third World Newsreel New York Foundation for the Arts Bay Area Video Coalition

Executive Producer for NBPC Jacquie Jones

Executive Producer for ITVS Sally Jo Fifer

Funding Provided by Ford Foundation Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts Reginald Van Lee National Endowment for the Arts Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program New York State Council on the Arts William and Carol Sutton Lewis Clarence Otis, Jr. and Jacqueline Bradley Kenneth and Kathryn Chenault National Endowment for the Humanities And others. A complete list is available from PBS.

Through a Lens Darkly is a co-production of Through a Lens Darkly, LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), produced in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

This film was produced by Through a Lens Darkly, LLC, which is solely responsible for its content.

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