The Picture Taker
From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades of secret FBI service revealed only after his death. Was he a friend of the civil rights community, or enemy—or both?
- genus: Documentary, History
- Studio: Realization Pictures, K2 Pictures, Ark Media, ITVS
- keyword: photographer, fbi, civil rights, memphis, tennessee, black history, civil rights movement, biopic
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