The Picture Taker

Movies
2022-10-27
EN
Released
1h 20m
Documentary - History

Production

Realization Pictures, K2 Pictures, Ark Media, ITVS

Storyline

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?