A Film by
Thomas Allen Harris
Inspired by the Book
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, by Deborah Willis
Director, Producer, Writer
Thomas Allen Harris
Producers
Deborah Willis
Ann Bennett
Don Perry
Executive Producers
Kimberly Steward
John Singleton
Writers
Don Perry
Paul Carter Harrison
Editors
K.A. Miille
Matthew Cohn
Composer
Vernon Reid
Additional Music and Opening Theme Composed and Performed by
Miles Jay
Director of Photography
Martina Radwan
Associate Producers
Sabrina Hawkins
Sheila Maniar
Sound Recordists
J.T. Takagi
Juan Rodríguez
Sound Designer and Mixer
Kent Brown
Gaffer
Luis Colon
Grips
Jeremy Conley
Jonathan Weaver
Drew Eichman
Production Counsel
Woo Jung Cho, PLLC
Animation/Special Effects
Dan Callahan
On-line Editor and Colorist
Jon Fordham
Post-Production Services Provided by
Skywalker Sound
Editing Facility Provided by
Tribeca All Access
Still Photographers
Régine Romain
Russell Frederick
Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Donald Andrew Agarrat
Sonia Louise Davis
Petrushka Bazin Larsen
Victor Lloyd
Assistant Researchers
Chloe Kurabi
Sonia Louise Davis
Dr. Mary Marshall
Martha Mae Jones
Alexander Johns
Bookkeepers
Elizabeth Skinner
Jessica Eubanks
Rights and Clearances Counsel
Lisa A. Callif
Advisors
David G. Berger
Ron K. Brown
Shiree Dyson
Cheryl Finley
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Camara Dia Holloway
Kellie Jones
Nathan Nathanson
Ann Shumard
Greg Tate
Mel Watkins
Anne Wilkes Tucker
Leslie Willis-Lowry
Kerrie Cotten Williams
Mary Yearwood
Archival Courtesy of:
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Billy “Fundi” Abernathy
African American Museum in Philadelphia
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
Anthony Barboza
Art Resource
Associated Press
Austin History Center
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles "Teenie" Harris Collection
Michael Chambers
Chester County Historical Society
Cincinnati Museum Center
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson
Corbis Photos
Emory University, Manuscript and Rare Book Library
Ernest Withers, Panopticon Collection
Gertrude Erwin
Virginia Fair
Delphine Fawundu-Buford
Mikki Ferrell
George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film
Georgia Department of Archives and History
Getty Images
Ted Gray
Greg French Collection
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
Selma Heraldo
Herman B Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington
Historic New Orleans Collection
International Center of Photography
Institute for Arts & Media, College of Arts, California State University Northridge
ITN Source/Fox Movietone
Johnson Publications
Albert S. Johnson, Jr.
Phillip Richard Johnson, Jr.
Leonard Davis Collection
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Life Magazine
John Clark Mayden
Melvin J. Zahnow Library Archives and Special Collections, Saginaw Valley State University
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Montana Historical Society
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Museum of African American History, Smithsonian Institution
National Center for Civil and Human Rights
National Archives and Records Administration
NAACP
Nebraska State Historical Society
New York Public Library
NY1
Kambui Olujimi
Onondaga Historical Association
Pacifica Foundation Radio
Larry Patterson
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Dawit Petros
Photofest, Inc.
Pitts Rivers Museum, Oxford University
PH Polk Estate
The Gordon Parks Foundation
Rijksmuseum
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, NYPL
Accra Shepp
Beuford Smith
Jamyl Smith
Special Collections Library, Vassar College
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst
State Archives of Florida
Streamline Films
T3 Media
The Granger Collection
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at The University of Alabama
Third Streaming
The Tuskegee University Archives, Tuskegee University
University of Delaware
Valentine Richmond History Center
Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University
Rev. Malika Lee Whitney
Jason Wright
Young Robertson Collection
Photos by Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, Winifred Hall Allen, Vera Jackson, Louise E. Jefferson, Arthur C. Teal, and Joyce R. Wilson: Courtesy of “Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers” Collection of Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Fiscal Sponsors
Third World Newsreel
New York Foundation for the Arts
Bay Area Video Coalition
Executive Producer for NBPC
Jacquie Jones
Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
Funding Provided by
Ford Foundation
Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts
Reginald Van Lee
National Endowment for the Arts
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
New York State Council on the Arts
William and Carol Sutton Lewis
Clarence Otis, Jr. and Jacqueline Bradley
Kenneth and Kathryn Chenault
National Endowment for the Humanities
And others. A complete list is available from PBS.
Through a Lens Darkly is a co-production of Through a Lens Darkly, LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), produced in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
This film was produced by Through a Lens Darkly, LLC, which is solely responsible for its content.
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