NAACP Award Winning Film THROUGH A LENS DARKLY Featuring Photographer Hugh Bell Recently Returned to PBS

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. Directed by Thomas Allen Harris. The film features the late photographer Hugh Bell.

Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is the exclusive representative of the Estate of Hugh Bell. For more information about Hugh Bell and his legacy, please contact David Deitch, Fine Arts Curator, at david@gartenbergmedia.com. For information regarding clip and photo licensing from GME please visit the Clip & Photo Licensing section of our website.

All photographs are © The Estate of Hugh Bell.