Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

7.6/ 10

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2024

Release Year

105 min

Runtime

Documentary

Overview

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.

Keywords

photographer
south africa
apartheid
exile
racial segregation
racism
black history
anti-apartheid
observational documentary
life and career
freelance photographer
street photography
environmental racism
documentary portrait
biographical documentary
anti-indigenous racism

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Brent Marchant

@Brent_Marchant

November 30, 2024

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6/10

Chronicling the atrocities of social, political and ethnic persecution is undeniably a courageous and important act, especially when informing a largely unaware public of the horrendous events unfolding out of view. However, doing so can also take quite a toll on those recording such incidents, as s

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