The Black List Project: Prominent African Americans

Serena Williams, Chris Rock, Colin Powell, Toni Morrison, Russell Simmons, Al Sharpton, Kareem-Abdul Jabbar, and Sean Combs are among the many African Americans whose faces are seen and voices heard in The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell, a highly personal documentary that explores being Black in America.

Twenty-five portraits by internationally renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, along with excerpts from a series of filmed interviews directed by Greenfield-Sanders and conducted by noted film critic Elvis Mitchell, will be presented in an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum November  21, 2008 through March 29, 2009 .

The images, photographic and filmed, are the core of a collaboration between Greenfield-Sanders and Mitchell that has resulted in Blacklist: Volume 1, an HBO documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 and will debut nationally exclusively on HBO on August 25, 2008 (9-10:30 p.m. ET/PT); a multi-city Museum exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where it is on view August 3-October 26, 2008; and an accompanying book published by the Atria Books division of Simon & Schuster. The Brooklyn presentation is coordinated by Judy Kim, Curator of Exhibitions.

The Where and When

The Black LIst Project
November 21, 2008 - March 29, 2009
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
(718) 638-5000
Wednesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m