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Through a Lens Darkly: ĺäĄ_IĺäĄ_d Never Seen Black Peopl
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Through a Lens Darkly, artists, photographers and historians talk about how African American subjects had been portrayed in photographic images when they were growing up, and before, in often unflattering and distorted ways.
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