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Through a Lens Darkly: Family Photo Albums
In this excerpt from the opening moments of the Independent Lens documentary Through a Lens Darkly, we see how African American family secrets and histories can be explored through the family photo album, in what it chooses to represent by what is absent, and what is hidden.
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