Second Saturdays Movie Night
Sat, Feb 08
|Asheville
This Month's Showing is the documentary Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People


Time & Location
Feb 08, 2025, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Asheville, 207 Coxe Ave, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
Guests
About the event
This RSVP is for the film only in order to count available seats. Studios will be open to the public without the need for an RSVP, and the gallery will be open before and after the film.
The film will begin at 5 p.m.
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.
Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into the lives of black families, whose experiences and perspectives are often missing from the traditional historical canon. African Americans historically embraced the medium as a way to subvert popular stereotypes as far…