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This ambitious and heartbreaking documentary tackles no less mammoth a subject than the African-American identity as it exists in photographic imagery. Feb 20, 2015 | Full Review…
This ambitious and heartbreaking documentary tackles no less mammoth a subject than the African-American identity as it exists in photographic imagery.
Drew Hunt
A fascinating, visually stunning, emotionally devastating documentary by Thomas Allen Harris. Dec 11, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A fascinating, visually stunning, emotionally devastating documentary by Thomas Allen Harris.
Ann Hornaday
This is sound-bite cinema, revealing at times, but also frustratingly basic stuff. Nov 20, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4
This is sound-bite cinema, revealing at times, but also frustratingly basic stuff.
John Hartl
With the thousand words vividly painted through each picture, we connect, identify and find solidarity. Nov 14, 2014 | Full Review…
With the thousand words vividly painted through each picture, we connect, identify and find solidarity.
Martin Tsai
Harris indulges in too many personal memoir detours and overdoes the talking heads, but much of the imagery on display is extraordinary. Aug 29, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Harris indulges in too many personal memoir detours and overdoes the talking heads, but much of the imagery on display is extraordinary.
Peter Rainer
Though a tad uneven, as a whole the documentary cannily juggles an overview of African-American history in general with the specifics of its photographic representation and talents. Aug 28, 2014 | Full Review…
Though a tad uneven, as a whole the documentary cannily juggles an overview of African-American history in general with the specifics of its photographic representation and talents.
Dennis Harvey
Thomas Allen Harris' lush, lovely, loving Through a Lens Darkly chronicles the role of photography in a 170-year history of the lives of black Americans. A teeming abundance of stirring and often brilliant imagery by African-American artists. Sep 23, 2014 | Full Review…
Thomas Allen Harris' lush, lovely, loving Through a Lens Darkly chronicles the role of photography in a 170-year history of the lives of black Americans. A teeming abundance of stirring and often brilliant imagery by African-American artists.
Ray Pride
Provocative and mildly engaging. It could have used a better organization of its wealth of facts. Aug 29, 2014 | Rating: 7.12/10 | Full Review…
Provocative and mildly engaging. It could have used a better organization of its wealth of facts.
Avi Offer
It's all way too much, for in his desire to be comprehensive, Harris plumb forgets that less would have been more. Aug 27, 2014 | Full Review…
It's all way too much, for in his desire to be comprehensive, Harris plumb forgets that less would have been more.
David Noh
Perhaps too ambitious in scope, a few truly powerful sequences still manage to elevate this historical overview of African-American photography above its uneven style. Aug 27, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Perhaps too ambitious in scope, a few truly powerful sequences still manage to elevate this historical overview of African-American photography above its uneven style.
Daniel Walber
Director Thomas Allen Harris has made an earnest, though often sloppy, documentary on the essential role imagery plays in shaping the narrative of a people. Aug 26, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Director Thomas Allen Harris has made an earnest, though often sloppy, documentary on the essential role imagery plays in shaping the narrative of a people.
Andrew Lapin
Thomas Allen Harris's documentary consistently takes agency away from the art itself with a litany of talking heads. Aug 24, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Thomas Allen Harris's documentary consistently takes agency away from the art itself with a litany of talking heads.
Clayton Dillard
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