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The on-line multimedia gallery features Center for Documentary Studies
presentations rich in multimedia—photographs, audio recordings,
video clips, and extensive excerpts from texts.
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Hand & Eye: Fifteen
Years of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize: view
photographs and writing from ten past prizewinning projects
Alexa Dilworth, awards director
at CDS talks with Peter Brown about winning the prize, doing documentary
work, and what it means to collaborate with another artist on a
project like this one
View video excerpts of an interview
with Misty Keasler
Married
to the Military, a production of American RadioWorks and the
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
More than two years into America's conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan,
the United States' all-volunteer force is stretched as thinly as
it's ever been. Dangerous insurgent attacks in Iraq and longer deployments
are straining military families. Married to the Military
enters the private world of the homefront. Through audio diaries
and extensive interviews with soldiers and their families, the documentary
explores the military as a career choice and as a way of life for
families—and as an industry in a military town. What kind
of bargain do families and communities strike in signing on with
the military?
Steven B. Smith, a photography professor at the Rhode Island School
of Design, has been selected to receive the second
Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
for his stunning black-and-white photographs of the surreal intersection
of suburbia and desert in California, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado.
Read more about the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First
Book Prize in Photography
Read more about the CDS Book The Weather and a Place to Live:
Photographs of the Suburban West by Steven B. Smith
Read
an interview with Steven B. Smith
The Palmer Memorial Institute, an African American preparatory school
attended by more than 1,000 students from 1902 until it closed in
1971. The exhibition includes black-and-white photographs of student
life at Palmer Memorial Institute, circa 1947, by Griff Davis, an
accomplished African American photojournalist whose work appeared
in the New York Times, Atlanta Daily World, Ebony, Time, Fortune,
Negro Digest, and Davis's work visually depicts an often-neglected
piece of American history — that of middle- and upper-middle-class
African Americans. Read more
about the CDS traveling exhibit The Palmer Memorial Institute.
An exhibition of toned black-and-white silver gelatin contact prints
made from 4-x-5-inch negatives by students using large-format view
cameras. Duke University students in a Fall 2004 course at the Center
for Documentary Studies were encouraged to find their own visual
language to investigate and describe something deeply held.
For more than thirty years, Wendy Ewald has worked with children
around the world, using photography to enable them to express what
they think and feel, even on difficult subjects like their dreams
and racial stereotypes. Written for parents and teachers, the book
is filled with anecdotes about Ewald's work that make it an accessible
and practical guide to getting children involved in photography.
I Wanna Take Me a Picture uses basic assignments to teach
everything from framing and point of view to how to set up a darkroom
and develop film. Published by the Center for Documentary Studies
in association with Beacon Press.
During the week of her exhibition opening at the Center for Documentary
Studies, the artist Tone Stockenström gave a public talk about
her projects and led a workshop on collaborative documentary techniques.
For undergraduate students enrolled in the course "Traditions
in Documentary Studies," she also led a special tour of the
exhibition. An excerpt of the tour is presented in this video gallery.
Photographer Wendy Ewald and English as a Second Language teacher
Emelia DeCroix discuss how they worked with students to create a
visual Spanish alphabet.
Allan Gurganus, author of the best-selling novel Oldest Living
Confederate Widow Tells All, among other notable books, is
the Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies
and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 2004-05 academic year.
On October 28, 2004, Gurganus delivered the annual Lehman Brady
lecture at the Center for Documentary Studies. He answered questions
and read his story "My Heart Is a Snake Farm," which was
published in the November 22, 2004, issue of The New Yorker.
Small Warriors Barsaloi:
Three Months with Children in a Kenyan Village
A video and photo presentation based on the fieldwork of a Hart
Fellow who completed a post-fellowship residency at CDS
We
Skate Hardcore
Vincent Cianni spent seven years photographing and documenting a
group of Latino in-line skaters in the Southside of Williamburgs,
Brooklyn. In the new publication by Lyndhurst Books of the Center
for Documentary Studies and New York University Press, Cianni weaves
together images of the skaters with their own words, showing the
struggles the skaters experience to find a place to skate and to
survive in the city.
In addition to hundreds of black-and-white and color photos, We
Skate Hardcore includes a DVD with footage of the skaters featured
in the book.
Oh Freedom Over Me
A multimedia exhibition marking the fortieth
anniversary of Freedom Summer and celebrating American voting rights
and responsibilities. Including photographs by members of the Southern
Documentary Project: Matt Herron, George Ballis, David Prince, and
Danny Lyon.
CDS Virtual Tour
View the CDS exhibition spaces as they were when The Innocents:
Headshots (Juanita Kreps and Lyndhurst Galleries) and A
Sense of Place (Porch Gallery) were on display in the spring
of 2004.
Youth Noise Network
Youth Noise Network (YNN) is an after-school program of the Center
for Documentary Studies. YNN participants are high school students
who have completed documentary work in Youth Document Durham, a
summer program at CDS. YNN students produce audio, writing, and
photographs that address current issues of particular concern to
young people.
A Sense of Place
During the fall of 2003, students in Alex Harris's advanced documentary
photography course were asked to pay particular attention to creating
a "sense of place" as they made photographs for their
semester-long projects. View images from the students' projects
in this special on-line version of the exhibition that resulted
from the course.
Hearing Is Believing: A Documentary Audio Summer Institute
Twelve short audio documentary stories recorded and produced by
participants in the 2003 summer
institute
25
Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers
Twenty-five images from the CDS book that showcases promising young
photographers
What
Was Told: A Year Among Families on the Cape Flats
An audiovisual exhibition based on the fieldwork of a Hart Fellow
in South Africa who completed a post-fellowship residency at CDS
Each
One Teach One: Learning Leadership at TROSA
An exhibition exploring leadership at TROSA (Triangle Residential
Options for Substance Abusers Inc.) through photographs, writing,
and interview text
Days
of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11
A radio special: Americans' immediate responses to the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001, contrasted with the voices of Americans
sixty years earlier as they reacted to the Japanese assault on Pearl
Harbor
African
Americans Tell About Life in the Jim Crow South: Excerpts from the
book-and-CD set Remembering
Jim Crow
Audio clips, photographs, and contextual information from the archives
of the CDS project Behind the Veil
Photographer Wendy Ewald collaborated with Cathy Fine and her fifth-grade
class in Durham, North Carolina, on this project in which students
wrote two self-portraits, one as themselves and one in which they
imagined themselves as members of another race. Ewald then photographed
the students posing as their “black” and “white”
selves. This project was part of the Artist in the Classroom project
created by Literacy Through
Photography.
One
Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana
Portraits of Louisiana prisoners with a political and historical
background of American prisons, from the winners of the 2000 Lange-Taylor
Prize
Looking Back: 9/11 Across
America
An Acoustic Exhibit Presenting American Voices in the Aftermath
of Attack
Indivisible:
Stories of American Community
Through photographs and recorded voices, real-life stories of struggle
and change in twelve communities—from Delray Beach, Florida,
to Ithaca, New York; from the North Pacific Coast of Alaska to Chicago's
Southwest side; from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to the Yaak
Valley in Montana
banner image:
Partial view of the Lyndhurst Gallery, one of four exhibition spaces
at CDS. Photograph by Christopher Sims.
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