social emergence of African Americans

Screenings at MoMA, FILM FORUM and SUNDANCE

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a lens, darkly; but then face to face…”

I Corinthians, chapter 13, verses 11-12

Re-posted Video (above) by Robin Lindsay on Publish Date August 29, 2014. for The New York Times, Photo by First Run Features.

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coverage of DB, the Barbozas and attendees at the screening of the film by Thomas Allen Harris

Through a Lens Darkly at MoMA,Thearter1 screening G1

About the Film

The New York Times on “Through a Lens Darkly”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/movies/through-a-lens-darkly-on-african-american-photography.html?_r=0

“…Mr. Harris, an artist as well as a filmmaker, argues that the humanity, the full membership of African-Americans in the larger American family, is precisely what has been at stake in the work of black photographers. He tells their stories partly as a way of looking at history from a new angle and partly because their careers are fascinating and revealing in their own right.

A lot of knowledge about slavery, abolitionism, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement comes to us through pictures, but we don’t always think about their sources and meanings. Mr. Harris marshals an impressive collection of scholars, artists and photojournalists to help us understand what we see in portraits of enslaved blacks and 19th-century antislavery crusaders like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, and to appreciate the vision of pioneering 20th-century photographers like James VanDerZee and Gordon Parks.”

A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Screening at MoMA

Photographer Anthony Barboza joins panel discussion after the screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Barboza spoke along side director/producer Thomas Allen Harris, Deborah Willis, Ann Bennett, Lola Flash and more artists as well as contributors to the film…

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Screening at Film Forum, NYC

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Photographer Anthony Barboza (President of Kamoinge) joins panel Q&A with fellow members of the Kamoinge art collective to speak after the film. Fellow members in attendance after the film screening at Film Forum include Adger Cowans, John Pinderhughes, Herb Robinson, Radcliffe Roye, Ming Smith, Frank Stewart, Shawn Walker and more.

See below, for images of the DBs, Danica Barboza, and others in attendance at the screening.

“A rich and lyrical tapestry that is both personal and epic in scope, Thomas Allen Harris’s extraordinary documentary, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, is a unique examination of they way black photographers—and their subjects—have used the camera as a tool for social change from the time photography was invented to the present.”

Sundance Film Festival