Ernest Withers doc to open Indie Memphis Film Festival
Memphis photographer Ernest Withers is the subject of a new documentary. He’s seen here in the 1940s. (Courtesy Withers Family Trust)
“The Picture Taker,” from producer and director Phil Bertelsen, takes on the life and work of one of the foremost chroniclers of Black American life during the early and mid-20th century.
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