Tag: Eliot Elisofon

African-American Life, Double-Exposed “Through the African American Lens,” culled from a Smithsonian collection, shows how photography — and black photographers — reshaped a people’s image. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/african-american-life-double-exposed/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog The late 1930s image by Eliot Elisofon shows Zack Brown taking a picture of two dapper African-American men on a Harlem street. It challenged the then-dominant…