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Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum

Beyond the Front Porch 2012

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Iraq | Perspectives: Photographs by Benjamin Lowy

Selected by William Eggleston to win the fifth biennial CDS/
Honickman First Book Prize in Photography



Published by Duke University Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies


Literacy and Justice Through Photography: A Classroom Guide
By Wendy Ewald, Katherine Hyde, and Lisa Lord



Published by Teachers College Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies


American Studies
Photographs by Jim Dow
With an introduction by Ian Frazier



Published by powerHouse Books and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies


Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary
By Nancy Kalow



CDS's first e-book, available for free at visualstorytellingonline.org

CDS internships offered in Exhibitions, Digital Arts and Publishing, and Web Design. Application deadline June 4.

Certificate in Documentary Arts final project presentations at the Nasher Museum of Art on May 18

Special Flight receives the CDS Filmmaker Award at the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Fesival

Read about and register for Spring/Summer 2012 continuing education courses

Fall 2012 undergraduate courses announced

Ira Glass visit CDS audio course

Watch Iraq | Perspectives photographer Ben Lowy on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

MFAEDA Viewfinder blog launches

Announcing the new website for the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography

View photographs by the winners of the 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards

Watch student work from the 2011 CDS Video Institute

View video clips from In My Mind, which were created by undergraduate students working with Gary Hawkins and Emily LaDue



Now available on DVD: The Rough South of Larry Brown, written and directed by Gary Hawkins

Duke Chronicle article about film being made by CDS instructor Gary Hawkins and his students about watching Duke basketball in Cameron Indoor Stadium

The Jazz Loft Project has been named a recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award

News and Observer review of Anne Weber's The Geography of Marriage exhibition

Longtime Jazz Loft Project collaborator and friend Jason Moran wins a MacArthur Fellowship

CDS undergraduate instructor Kelly Alexander recognized for her teaching excellence

There are over 250 audio and video documentaries on the CDS iTunes U site.