NR | 1h 20min | Documentary, History, Biography | 14 October (USA)
Born in 1922 in the Manassas section of Memphis, Tennessee, and dying in the same city in 2007, Ernest Withers led as full of a life as anyone could possibly want or expect. He achieved national and international notoriety as a significant photojournalist.
Withers was a go-getter and a hustler and, through luck, fate, or a combination of both, found himself at or near every seminal event of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Virtually every still image displayed in the new documentary “The Picture Taker” was shot by Withers, whose personal archive is estimated to be close to 1.8 million photos….