The Photograph (2021)

The Photograph plot

One hundred years after his grandfather, Sherman De Jesus travels to New York. The reason is the only photo he has of his grandfather: a stately, time-worn black and white portrait of Juan de Jesus, a black man dressed in a worn tropical suit. With a look of excitement and pride, he looks at us and takes us back in time, to a world where he was practically “invisible” because of the color of his skin. On the back of the photo is a stamp: from the Harlem studio of the famous photographer James VanderZee, the maker of the photo. In Harlem, black migrants from the South and the Caribbean, during the heyday of the Harlem Renaissance, gave voice to the “New Negro” Movement with swinging jazz, art, literature and ideology. This was the world of James VanderZee who captured all aspects of life in Harlem from his photo studio. A forgotten period in which a proud and above all versatile black community becomes visible. When his work is discovered fifty years later by the Metropolitan Museum, celebrities such as Muhammad Ali, Bill Cosby and Jean-Michel Basquiat rush to be portrayed by the then 86-year-old photographer. Along 125th Street and the Cent seize (116th Street), the film moves into the invisible world where contemporary and historic Harlem merge. In modern Harlem, the residents shape freedom and their opportunities.

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