She knew “everything should not be from a white perspective.”Īs an editor, she got “an enormous number of African-Americans and people of color … published,” he added. “In 2014 or so, I reached out to see if she’d allow me to consider doing a documentary - and she didn’t say no.”Ī major theme of Morrison’s life work was fighting the idea of “the white gaze,” said the photographer/filmmaker. … She was smoking a pipe,” Greenfield-Sanders recalled with a laugh. I was asked to do her portrait in 1981 for Toni was promoting ‘Tar Baby.’ I remember her being extremely confident as a subject. She’s as relevant in Japan as she is in Boston.”įeaturing interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, and others, the two-hour documentary sheds light on Morrison, from her ’70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, to her work as one of the first Black editors at Random House. “Toni was a visionary,” Greenfield-Sanders said in a recent phone interview. The film premiered on WGBH this week, but it’s also available for free on and the PBS Video App though June 30.
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