About this Event
IN-PERSON
Join us for a special screening of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND at IFC Center in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The new documentary chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, through his own writings and photography. Cole was one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, a trailblazer who used his lens to capture the raw and often harsh realities of Black life under apartheid. He fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City, as well as the American South.
Raoul Peck will be in conversation following the film screening.
SEATS ARE LIMITED. You must RSVP to be admitted.
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ABOUT
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND is a new documentary chronicling the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City, as well as the American South, fascinated by the ways this country could be at times so vastly different, and at others eerily similar, to the segregated culture of his homeland. During this period, he published his landmark book of photographs denouncing the apartheid, House of Bondage which, while banned in South Africa, cemented Cole’s place as one of the great photographers of his time at the age of 27. After his death, more than 60,000 of his 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures Cole shot in the U.S. Telling his own story through his writings, the recollections 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.
IMAGES
- Ernest Cole in ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND, a Magnolia Pictures release. © Ernest Cole. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
- A photograph by Ernest Cole, from ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND, a Magnolia Pictures release. © Ernest Cole. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
- Theatrical one-sheet for ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
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FREE EVENT, GENERAL SEATING This event is free, but due to space constraints registration is REQUIRED.
AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.
PRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at [email protected].
Please note that professional video recordings are prohibited.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
IFC Center, 323 6th Avenue, New York, United States
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