Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life

Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers

Upcoming Exhibitions




Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life

April 25–October 26, 2008
Kreps Gallery and Lyndhurst Gallery

Exhibition Opening: April 25, 4–8 p.m.
Mural Tour: September 13, 2–6 p.m.

Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life is an interactive, multimedia exhibition of images, documents, and artifacts that both inspired and came out of the many social collaborations of the Face Up project. The exhibition includes video, collaborative Community Encyclopedias, a Community Quilt, and a mural.

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Then and Now:
Eight South African Photographers

April 18–September 28, 2008
Porch Gallery and University Gallery

Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers may be the largest exhibit of photographs ever seen at Duke University. The eight photographers whose work is included in the exhibit each contributed twenty prints, ten made under apartheid and ten made during the post-apartheid period. Shot in both black and white and color, the photographers’ subjects range from South African exiles in Europe to life in the townships to the historic first democratic election in 1994. The 160 images that make up the show will be shared among five campus venues.

About one-third of the work will be on display at Perkins Library in the Special Collections Gallery. The Center for Documentary Studies (1317 W. Pettigrew Street) will exhibit another third, and the rest of the images will be divided among the second-floor gallery at the Allen Building, the Divinity Library, and the Graduate Liberal Studies Program (2114 Campus Drive).

Map of Then and Now exhibition venues (356 kb PDF)

Curated by South African photographer Paul Weinberg, whose work is archived at Duke, Then and Now was funded by the Conference, Workshop, and Cultural Initiative Fund, a European Union–South Africa partnership program, and Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, which holds a complete set of the prints. The original exhibit opened September 10, 2007, at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown, South Africa, and is now traveling in South Africa.

Then and Now opens on March 31 at Duke at all venues except the Center for Documentary Studies, where the exhibit will be on view beginning April 18. Check the online exhibit for closing dates and hours: http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/.


OPENING RECEPTION

The opening reception is set for April 2, 5:30–7:30 p.m., at Perkins Library in the Biddle Rare Book Room. Speakers will include Karin Shapiro, visiting associate professor in the Department of History; Kay-Robert Volkwijn, activist and retired minister; Karen Jean Hunt, director of the John Hope Franklin Collection for African and African American Documentation; and South African singer/songwriter Roger Lucey, whose music was banned by the apartheid government.

Directions to the opening reception: http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/about/directions.html


PHOTO GALLERY











Scenes of Secrecy: Visual Studies on Suspicion, Intelligence, and Security

October 16, 2008–January 4, 2009
Porch Gallery and University Gallery

Talk by Trevor Paglen and reception: October 16, 5:30 p.m.

Photography, film, and mixed-media work by Trevor Paglen, William Noland, and NC Stop Torture Now, on local and international sites of surveillance in wartime. Exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies, presented as part of the interdisciplinary conference Scenes of Secrecy organized by Elizabeth Davis (Department of Cultural Anthropology).



Looking at monitors, Belmont Racetrack, Elmont, New York. 1994. Photographs by William Noland.






Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños /
Our Stories, Our Dreams
A CDS/SAF Exhibition

November 13, 2008–January 4, 2009
Kreps Gallery

Reception: November 13, 6–9 p.m.
Panel discussion will include project participants who shared their stories and those who documented them.

As border crossings, undocumented immigration, and related labor issues continue to define debate in the national political arena, the perspectives of those who have uprooted their livelihoods and risked their lives to come to the United States are seldom heard. Through the collaborative project Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños/Our Stories, Our Dreams, the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) collected stories about the experiences of Latino immigrants, illuminating their reasons for coming to this country and the obstacles they face once they arrive. In particular, the project focuses on farmworker families in the Carolinas and their dreams for the future; on their traditions, their educational aspirations, and their challenges as they try to pursue higher education.

Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños/Our Stories, Our Dreams uses the documentary arts to amplify the voices of Latino migrant youth and their families so that their stories can be heard. The project—which began in 2006 and involved undergraduate students, interns from across the country, faculty members, seasoned documentarians, and young people from farmworker families—created this traveling exhibition and a publication that will be available in November 2008 when the exhibit opens at the Center for Documentary Studies.

The book Nuestras Historias, Nuestos Sueños / Our Stories, Our Dreams will be available for a suggested contribution of $10.

SAF offers workshops on subjects related to this project; for information, contact Tony Macias at 919-660-3652 or tmacias@duke.edu.

For information about hosting the exhibition Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños/Our Stories, Our Dreams, contact Liz Lindsey at the Center for Documentary Studies: 919-660-3687 or liz.lindsey@duke.edu.

Support for this project was provided by the Adelante Education Coalition, the Fulfilling the Dream Fund, the GlaxoSmithKline Endowment Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the North Carolina Humanities Council, Duke University's Trinity College and the Powell Family Endowment Fund, and the Provost's Common Fund at Duke University.



Photograph by Eric Bishop and Kathy Stanton.

MORE ABOUT SAF: http://saf-unite.org
MORE ABOUT CDS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu

Border Stories

November 13, 2008–January 4, 2009
Lyndhurst Gallery

An exhibit featuring photographs from the DukeEngage On the Border/Encuentros de la Frontera 2008 delegation





Gallery Hours:
Monday–Thursday: 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday: 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Sunday: 1–5 p.m.

Please note that the Kreps, Lyndhurst, Porch, and University Galleries are typically open during regular CDS business hours. On occasion, the galleries are closed for installation, maintenance, and university scheduling considerations. Visitors might wish to call (919) 660-3663 before they make a special trip to see an exhibition, to ensure that the galleries are open.






Additional support for CDS Exhibitions is provided by the Office of the Provost at Duke University.






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Partial view of the Lyndhurst Gallery, one of four exhibition spaces at CDS. Photograph by Christoper Sims.


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