Screen craft: DoP Tobias A Schliessler on the photos that inspired ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

On the set of 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'

Source: David Lee/Netflix

“We had the cameras in this small room hiding behind a piano.”

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