Photo Credit: Renee Cox/First Run Features

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Cost: $8 (VMFA members $5)

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

with Director Thomas Allen Harris, Co-Writer/Co-Producer Don Perry, and Assistant Professor Paul Thulin from the VCU Department of Photography and Film

Fri, Feb 19, 6:30–9 pm | (2014; 90 min)

Leslie Cheek Theater

Inspired by the book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present by Deborah Willis, this history of African American photography focuses on the camera as a tool for social change. A community of photographers and artists, including Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas, and Lyle Ashton Harris, poetically reconcile legacies of pride with long-suppressed images.

Mr. Harris, Mr. Perry, and Prof. Thulin will introduce the film and be present for a discussion and Q&A afterwards.