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

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a documentary that tells the history of black photographers. The film shows how their art was used as a way of exposing the treatment of black people in America when nothing else seemed to work. Photographs can affect the emotions of people, and as such, are a useful tool for change. This is something black photographers learned quickly. Their photos exposed violent treatment, and horrible abuses that black people suffered, along with the abject poverty that black people have suffered in abundance.

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a 2014 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 33 minutes. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.2 and a MetaScore of 64.