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