Document is a biannual
publication that features some of the best documentary work supported
and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. "As with
any true center, CDS serves as a meeting ground, a central gathering
point for the exchange of ideas on the role of documentary studies
in our collective community," Tom Rankin, director of the Center
for Documentary Studies, wrote in the inaugural issue. "Document,
we hope, will become a visible record and continuation of our regular
gatherings, an important ingredient in our ongoing conversation
about the work of the Center and also about innovation and ideas
in documentary studies."
Each issue of Document includes
a range of stories; for example, engaging interviews with photographers
and other documentarians working locally, in their own communities,
and on projects across the United States and abroad; compelling
images and writing by young people documenting what's important
in their own lives; excerpts from books and exhibitions produced
by CDS; a sampling of documentary film projects from around the
world; ideas for creating your own documentary projects; and much
more.
Poets & Writers magazine (March/April 2007), in a discussion on the definition of what makes a "literary magazine" had this to say: "Document is, on the one hand, a newsletter—albeit beautifully produced—about the fine work being done at, and funded by, the center. On the other hand, it's a collection of creative essays, poems, and photographs, which sounds a lot like a literary magazine. . . . The last issue included an essay about plainclothes cops in Dneprodzerzhinsk, a city in central Ukraine, by Larry Forlick (who, with photographer Donald Weber, won the CDS's 2006 Lange-Taylor Prize); a poem by Natasha Trethewey who delivered a lecture at CDS last March; and photographs of the Black Panthers in the 1960s by Stephen Shames. No matter what one chooses to call it, Document is a compelling read."
Make sure your issues of Document
keep coming—join Friends of Documentary
Studies.
If you would like to receive a sample copy of Document,
send your request, along with your name, mailing address, and a
check for $7.50 (made payable to the Center for Documentary Studies),
to:
Document
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705
SPECIAL ISSUE
Document
(Summer/Fall 2005)
Hand & Eye: Fifteen Years
of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize
104 pages, more than 100 photographs
Send your request, along with your name, mailing address, and a
check for $15 (made payable to the Center for Documentary Studies),
to:
Document Special Issue
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705
See images and texts
from the exhibition Hand & Eye: Fifteen Years of the Dorothea
Lange-Paul Taylor Prize
banner image:
Photograph by Christopher Sims
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