Independent Lens
The Picture Taker
By Phil Bertelsen. A co-production of Picture Taker, LLC, Realization Pictures, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Black Public Media (BPM), in association with K2 Pictures and Ark Media.
Season 24
Episode 7
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?
