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winter 2012 Full Color Depression First Kodachromes by Farm Security Administration Photographers CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography New Website Features the Prizewinners Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Sadie Tillery on Programming the Films Documentary Writing Program CDS Writer in Residence Duncan Murrell Undergraduate, Graduate, and Continuing Education Spring Highlights
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919-660-3663 | Fax: 919-681-7600 | E-mail: docstudies@duke.edu | documentarystudies.duke.edu Director: Tom Rankin Associate Director for Programs & Communications: Lynn McKnight Publishing Director: Alexa Dilworth Art Director: Bonnie Campbell Communications Coordinator: Elizabeth Phillips Publishing Intern: Joel Mora The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. CDS values documentary work that balances community goals with individual artistic expression. CDS promotes documentary work that cultivates progressive change by amplifying voices, advancing human dignity, engendering respect among individuals, breaking down barriers to understanding, and illuminating social injustices. CDS conducts its work for local, regional, national, and international audiences. All photographs appearing in Document® are copyright by the artist. | Document® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
COVER, top to bottom: 1) Secondhand plumbing store, Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940. Photograph by Jack Delano. 2) Moscow, 2011. Photograph by Tom Rankin. 3) Long-exposure shot of the film and viewing areas of Laura Poitras’s installation O’ Say Can You See in the Kreps Gallery. Photograph by Joel Mora. 4) Elsewhere Collaborative’s Cabinet of Wonder (mixed media sculpture, 2010), from the exhibition here. Photograph by Norah Hoover.
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WINTER 2012
EXHIBITIONS 3 Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland Curated by Bruce Jackson
EDUCATION 13 Undergraduate Education Highlights Visiting Professor Elaine Lawless
Looking Back: 9/11 Across America An Acoustic Exhibit of American Voices
Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts Highlights MFAEDA Launch
O’ Say Can You See An Installation by Laura Poitras
Featured Spring Courses
Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project and Work-in-Process Prizewinners
Continuing Education Highlights 2012 Summer Institutes
Iraq | Perspectives Photographs by Benjamin Lowy
New Spring Courses
AWARDS 7 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography A New Website Features First Five Winners BOOKS 8 New and Recent Publications PEOPLE 10 Sadie Tillery Director of Programming, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Duncan Murrell Writer in Residence Tom Rankin To Russia with Duke on the Volga Dream CDS Interns Whitney Baker, Audrey Bell, and Joel Mora
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OTHER NEWS 14 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards CDS Receives MacArthur Grant for Groundwork Tom Rankin and Christopher Sims: Recent Exhibits Teka Selman Guest Curates Philadelphia Show JOIN FRIENDS OF CDS 15 Connect with the Center for Documentary Studies CALENDAR
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Full Color Depression First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland
Curated by Bruce Jackson January 23–July 23, 2012 Kreps Gallery Artist’s Talk and Book Signing: April 19, 6–9 p.m., talk at 7 p.m.
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he photographs taken by the Library of Congress’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) team—composed of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and others, under the leadership of Roy Emerson Stryker—include some of the most recognizable images of rural and small-town America during the Great Depression. Beginning in 1935, the team captured at least 175,000 black-and-white images of cities, towns, and the countryside throughout America’s heartland. Some of the photographers also captured lesser-known color images using a film called Kodachrome. No one knows exactly how many frames they shot for the FSA in color, but only 1,615 survive. Until recently, most of these images had not been seen since they were initially processed by Kodak’s lab in Rochester well over half a century ago. Kodachrome, the most stable fine-grain color film ever made, was introduced as 16mm movie film in 1935. During the following three years, it became available in canisters for 35mm cameras and in sheets for medium- and large-format cameras. By late 1939, the processing was as good as the film, and some of Stryker’s FSA photographers began experimenting with it. They continued their work after the FSA project was absorbed by the Office of War Information (OWI) in 1942, through its dissolution in 1944. Unlike black-and-white film, which could easily be developed while on the road, Kodachrome required a more complex process and was sent to Kodak to be developed. As a result, the photographers often did not see their final images. They were rediscovered in 1978 in the Library of Congress Archives by Sally Stein, who was researching photography from the 1930s for her dissertation. Today, all of the project’s surviving color images
are available as high-resolution scans from the Library of Congress. For this exhibition, Bruce Jackson, a photographer himself, has selected, printed, and, in some instances, restored a representative group of images; some of the prints required more than a thousand separate corrections. This selection of images ranges from the first tentative explorations of Marion Post Wolcott—who used the film in the same way she used black-and-white film— to the more complex color work of Russell Lee and Jack Delano—who were beginning to understand that color photography was different than monochrome—and the hyped advertising-style propaganda images of Arthur T. Palmer from the early years of World War II. Color photography would not find a firm base in the art world until an exhibition of works by William Eggleston was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, but as the images in this exhibition demonstrate, the path was marked decades before by Stryker’s FSA team. Their assignment was to document what America looked like during and at the end of the Great Depression; in the process, they discovered new ways the camera lens could see and represent the world. This exhibition is organized by Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and James Agee Professor of American Culture at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
ABOVE: Barker at the grounds of the Vermont state fair, Rutland, Vermont, September 1941. Photograph by Jack Delano. OPPOSITE: Photograph by Kathy Colville.
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PRINT AUCTION “It seemed to me that the exhibit offered a choice between two ways of dealing with the high-resolution files posted by [the Library of Congress]. One was to print the images exactly as they are; the other was to print them as the photographers might have if they were doing an exhibit and had any influence at all over what the lab guys did. The first documents the work of archivists who started with the work of photographers, of time and chemistry, and of accident; the second documents the work of the photographers. I went with the photographers.”—Bruce Jackson Bruce Jackson is donating the eight 24 x 30 and twenty-seven 30 x 24 digital pigment fiber prints from Full Color Depression to the Center for Documentary Studies. The files used to create the images were made from the original transparencies.
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Visualizing a Decade If you have images in mind of America during the Great Depression and dust storms of the 1930s, odds are that those images are based on one or both of two books, one film, and one federal project: John Steinbeck’s epic novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Ford’s film version (starring Henry Fonda in one of his most memorable roles) of the Steinbeck novel (1940), James Agee’s and Walker Evans’s ethnographic and autobiographical masterpiece Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), and the black-and-white photographs by the RA/FSA/OWI photographic team (1935–43). But Walker Evans, whose captionless photographs comprise the first long section of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, made some of the best and most memorable of the FSA photographs, and he did the primary work for the book while under contract to the FSA (which is why most of the images in the book are in the public domain). John Steinbeck studied Dorothea Lange’s FSA images, and so did John Ford and cinematographer Gregg Toland when they made the film. As did the people who made later films about that period, such as Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941), Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967), Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese, 1972), Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973), Hard Times (Walter Hill, 1975), Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby, 1976), The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985), Ironweed (Héctor Babenco, 1987), Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise, 1992), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, 2000). Directly and indirectly, it is the FSA photographers whose vision influenced and conditioned much or even all the revisioning of Thirties America to come. The project was hardly perfect. It privileged the rural and agrarian over the urban and industrial. There would be only one black person on Stryker’s staff—Gordon Parks—and he would join it late in the project and would be paid by someone else. It wasn’t just who worked on the project, but what was done by other agencies and organizations with the project’s work: “Almost no government photography showed blacks and whites together.” The project had only four women on staff, “most for a short time: Lange, Wolcott, Collins, and Bubbly. Rosskam, a first-class photographer, was never on the payroll.” It was far from perfect, but it produced a major body of work anyway. Stryker’s photographic project . . . was more liberal than most of the operations in and around Washington, D.C., but it was no more free of its times than we are. If we have a national memory of those bitter years, it is grounded in the FSA photographs, imperfect as it may be— and all the books, films, paintings, photographs, and everything else that has drawn from or been grounded in them. —Bruce Jackson
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Looking Back
O’ Say Can You See
9/11 Across America An Acoustic Exhibit of American Voices
An Installation by Laura Poitras
Lyndhurst Gallery | Through December 22, 2011
On September 11, 2001, filmmaker Laura Poitras was in lower Manhattan, where she lives. In the hours and days after the bombing and collapse of the World Trade Center Towers she shot film footage of stunned and grief-stricken citizens. The world has dramatically changed since that date, and Poitras has made two probing and powerful documentary films that examine post-9/11 socio-political realities as they impact individuals, families, government policies, and belief systems.
In contrast to visual images from September 11, Looking Back relies upon the more immediate experience of sound to connect us directly with other people as we share the spontaneity and poignancy of their reactions. On September 12, 2001, the day after devastating terrorist attacks shook the country, conversations at the American Folklife Center recalled Alan Lomax’s response to another historic breach of U.S. territory. On December 8, 1941, Lomax, then in charge of the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song, called on a team of historians and folklorists to collect American reactions to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Sixty years later, the American Folklife Center in Washington, D.C., put out a similar call for people to document on audiotape “the immediate reactions of average Americans in your own communities to yesterday’s attacks [and] how their lives have been changed.” Folklorists, students, public librarians, and many others responded with about 500 hours of recordings. From these tapes, the Center for Documentary Studies produced Looking Back, an acoustic installation reflecting Americans’ thoughts and emotions in the immediate aftermath of the events of September 11. These voices didn’t make the evening news; they express sentiments from quieter vantage points, showing the deep impact of the tragedy on everyday life across the country.
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Kreps Gallery | Through December 22, 2011
O’ Say Can You See is Poitras’s first gallery exhibition. The installation features a projection of the imagery from Ground Zero in 2001, with audio recorded weeks later at the Yankees’ come-from-behind Game 4 World Series victory on October 20. Poitras says, “O’ Say Can You See is a meditation on loss and revenge.” Interviews with recently released detainees from Guantanamo Bay are presented on flat screen monitors, adding new layers of information and emotion about the War on Terror.
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Looking Back: 9/11 Across America, a project of the Center for Documentary Studies, was produced by Sarah Chasnovitz and Elana Hadler Perl in 2002. Archival recordings are courtesy of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Additional support was provided by the Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation.
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above: Banners hang in the Lyndhurst Gallery as part of the acoustic installation Looking Back: 9/11 Across America. Photograph by Joel Mora. right: Long-exposure shot of the film and viewing areas of Laura Poitras’s installation O’ Say Can You See in the Kreps Gallery. Photograph by Joel Mora.
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Here, Anywhere
Off-Site Exhibit
Photographs by Tamas Dezso and the 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Award Winners
Iraq | Perspectives
Porch & University Galleries Through December 22, 2011
Photographs by Benjamin Lowy Through December 11, 2011 Rubenstein Library Gallery Perkins Library, Duke University
A solo show featuring Project Prize winner Tamas Dezso and a group exhibition featuring Work-in-Process Prize winner David Pace along with John Cyr, James Dodd, Baldomero Fernandez, Lydia Goldblatt, Shane Lavalette, Sebastian Liste, Lorenzo Martelli, Kris Vervaeke, Jurors’ Pick winners in both categories In recognition of mutual interests in documentary and fine art photography, Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies started an international competition in 2010, the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, to honor and promote talented and committed photographers, both emerging and established. The 2011 guest jurors were Anthony Bannon, director, George Eastman House; Darren Ching, owner, Klompching Gallery, and creative director, Photo District News; Stacey D. Clarkson, art director, Harper’s Magazine; Whitney Johnson, picture editor, The New Yorker; Joel Sternfeld, photographer; Sasha Wolf, owner, Sasha Wolf Gallery. To learn more about the prize and to see the photographers’ cdsporch.org/archives/6952 portfolios:
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Selected by William Eggleston to win the 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography because the “images were practically asking to be in a book together—everything about them—the conception, the subject, the fact that we’re still at war, the way the pictures were taken. Benjamin’s work is an opportunity to see as an American soldier sees when in Iraq—nobody I know of has ever shown that, especially through night vision goggles.” The arresting color photographs in Iraq | Perspectives, taken through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles, capture the desolation of a war-ravaged Iraq as well as the tension and anxiety of both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. To photograph on the streets unprotected was impossible for Lowy, so he made images that illuminate this difficulty by shooting photographs through the windows and goggles meant to help him, and soldiers, to see. To learn more about the prize and to see a gallery of Lowy’s firstbookprizephoto.com images:
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“ I was covering Iraq for years. . . . At some point I realized all these pictures I’m making, they’re digital, appear mostly on the Internet for an hour before they’re refreshed with something new. . . . It’s not like how it used to be, where a very few people had cameras. Now everyone has one, and you have to find a unique way of photographing something that’s different than what other people see, and expect to see. . . .” —Benjamin Lowy
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A New Website Features First Five Winners The Center for Documentary Studies and the Honickman Foundation, based in Philadelphia, co-sponsor this prestigious biennial prize for American photographers. The only prize of its kind, the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition is open to American photographers of any age who have never published a book-length work and who use their cameras for creative exploration, whether it be of places, people, or communities; of the natural or social world; of beauty at large or the lack of it; of objective or subjective realities. The prize honors work that is visually compelling, that bears witness, and that has integrity of purpose. Winners of the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography receive a $3,000 grant, publication of a book of photography, and inclusion in a website devoted to presenting their work. We are proud to launch the site with the publication of fifth prizewinner Benjamin Lowy’s book, Iraq | Perspectives.
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CDS/Honickman First Book Prize
Deborah Willis is the judge of the sixth biennial competition. A 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, Willis has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as one of the nation’s leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Willis was recently named among the “100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photography magazine. She is chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Submissions for the next competition will be accepted from June 15 to September 15, 2012. Full competition guidelines will be available on the site in January.
ABOVE: Photographs of and by winners and honorable mentions of the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, 2002–2010. Top to bottom, left to right: Danny Wilcox Frazier (winner, 2006); from the series Children of St. Louis’s South Side by Anna Kuperberg (honorable mention, 2002); Jennette Williams (winner, 2008); from The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West by Steven B. Smith; from Driftless: Photographs from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier; from the series Shadow Lives USA by Jon Lowenstein (honorable mention, 2008); from the series In Iraq by Lucian Read (honorable mention, 2008); from The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams; William Eggleston judging the 2010 First Book Prize competiton, photograph by Tom Rankin; Danny Wilcox Frazier (winner, 2006); from On Fire: Photographs by Larry Schwarm; Larry Schwarm (winner, 2002); Steven B. Smith (winner, 2004); from the series Heart in the Wound by Lisa Kessler (honorable mention, 2004); from Iraq | Perspectives: Photographs by Benjamin Lowy; Benjamin Lowy (winner, 2010). OPPOSITE: Car wreck, Budapest, Hungary, 2009, from Here, Anywhere. Photograph by Tamas Dezso.
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CDS BOOKS New and Recent Publications
In This Timeless Time Living and Dying on Death Row in America Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian In This Timeless Time features photographs by Bruce Jackson and text by Bruce Jackson with Diane Christian, as well as a DVD of their film Death Row, and “is about life on Death Row in Texas, the special prison within a prison the state maintains for men it plans to put to death,” as Jackson and Christian write in their preface. “It is also about all the other Death Rows, which across time and in various places differ in marginal ways but which, at their core, are not significantly different from one another.” The book is made up of three parts: photographs Jackson made in 1979; commentary written in 2010; and the story of how Jackson and Christian got access to a place from which outsiders are usually excluded, and some things that happened during the course of their fieldwork. They write, “In our 1979 film and 1980 book, we tried to give the residents of the Row voice about what it was like to live in that place and be in that condition. In this book, we try to let you see them as the individuals they in fact are, and to tell you what has happened to some of them in the interim.” “With absolute fairness and profound honesty, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian carry us into the tragic world of a group of prisoners living on a Texas Death Row. Through unforgettable stories and photos, we come to feel the suffering, guilt, and confusion of these men, as well as their inextinguishable human dignity.” —Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking “In the over thirty years since Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian’s work on a Texas death row began, we have made few advances in addressing the injustices in our justice system’s ultimate violent act. This is a significant work that speaks to our collective need to right the wrong that is capital punishment.” —John Lewis, U.S. congressman and civil rights leader
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“Most everyone in this book was executed. Most everyone said they were innocent. I did too . . . and I was. . . . Bruce and Diane have captured the face of America’s death penalty machine.” —Kerry Max Cook, former Death Row prisoner “Cook, Ex: #600,” exonerated through DNA testing after serving 22 years “Most of us have formed whatever opinion we hold on the death penalty without any direct experience of what life is like inside of an institution specially designed by trial and error to utterly dehumanize its inhabitants (and by inevitable, toxic osmosis, its employees) in order that WE THE PEOPLE are able to take their lives at a given time on a given date. Pray that In This Timeless Time is as close as you ever get.” —Steve Earle, singer-songwriter and author of I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Bruce Jackson is James Agee Professor of American Culture and SUNY Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of numerous books and films. Diane Christian, a poet, scholar of religious literature, and documentarian, is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Includes a DVD of the documentary Death Row In the series Documentary Arts and Culture Published by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies 256 pages | 113 duotone photographs $35.00, hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8078-3539-5 Available in April 2012 in bookstores or by ordering from UNC Press
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Lobo and his two Wolf spiders. He’d caught them in the recreation yard, near the fence. When he cleaned his cell in the morning, he’d look for bugs, which he’d drop in the hole in the cardboard lid he’d made for his spider jar. Then he’d sit on his bunk and watch the spiders deal with the bugs. Photograph by Bruce Jackson.
“In the over thirty years since Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian’s work on a Texas death row began, we have made few advances in addressing the injustices in our justice system’s ultimate violent act. This is a significant work that speaks to our collective need to right the wrong that is capital punishment.” — John Lewis, U.S. congressman and civil rights leader
A Classroom Guide Wendy Ewald, Katherine Hyde, and Lisa Lord
“Most of us have formed whatever opinion we hold on the death penalty without any direct experience of what life is like inside of an institution specially designed by trial and error to utterly dehumanize its inhabitants (and by inevitable, toxic osmosis, its employees) in order that WE THE PEOPLE are able to take their lives at a given time on a given date. Pray that In This Timeless Time is as close as you ever get.” — Steve Earle, singer-songwriter and author of I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
The authors share their perspectives as an artist, a sociologist, and a teacher to show how four Literacy Through Photography projects—American Alphabets, The Best Part of Me, Black Self/ White Self, and Memories from Past Centuries— invite students to create art that promotes critical thinking and self-expression and provides a framework for engaging students in essential social justice issues. “Nothing like this book exists, or could ever exist again. I could not recommend it more strongly.” —Billy Sothern, death penalty lawyer and author of Down in New Orleans
“In This Timeless Time is a cry of the heart . . . and should become the definitive book on the medieval cruelty of our death rows. Once read, none of us can turn our view away and say, ‘We did not know.’” —Michael Ratner, attorney and president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights
“Beauty? Where can beauty be in such a haunting, fatal place? And then one looks at these photos . . . men with visages of hopelessness, loss, and hope. Yes, hope. Jackson and Christian have pulled back the proverbial curtain so that all can see the American Way of Death.” —Mumia Abu-Jamal, co-author of The Classroom and the Cell
Documentary Arts and Culture Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University The University of North Carolina Press • www.uncpress.unc.edu
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Bruce Jackson is James Agee Professor of American Culture and SUNY Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of numerous books and films. Diane Christian, a poet, scholar of religious literature, and documentarian, is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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“Most everyone in this book was executed. Most everyone said they were innocent. I did too . . . and I was. Bruce and Diane have captured the face of America’s death penalty machine.” —Kerry Max Cook, former Death Row prisoner “Cook, Ex: #600,” exonerated through DNA testing after serving 22 years
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“With absolute fairness and profound honesty, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian carry us into the tragic world of a group of prisoners living on a Texas Death Row. Through unforgettable stories and photos, we come to feel the suffering, guilt, and confusion of these men, as well as their inextinguishable human dignity.” — Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
Living and Dying on Death Row in America
Literacy and Justice Through Photography
In This Timeless Time
In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of inmates in the official “nonperiod” between sentencing and execution. Included is a DVD of Jackson and Christian’s 1979 documentary film, Death Row.
Living & Dying on Death Row in America
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Includes detailed lesson plans and comprehensive resources Published by Teachers College Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies 208 pages | 80 black and white photographs $31.95, paperback | ISBN 978-9-8077-5281-4 $68.00, hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8077-5282-1
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Iraq | Perspectives Photographs by Benjamin Lowy Lowy’s powerful color photographs, taken through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles, capture the desolation of a war-ravaged Iraq as well as provide us with a new way of looking at the war—an entirely different framework for regarding and thinking about the everyday activities of Iraqis in a devastated landscape and the movements of soldiers on patrol. Selected by William Eggleston to win the biennial CDS/ Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Published by Duke University Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies 120 pages | 96 color photographs $39.95, hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8223-5166-5
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American Studies Photographs by Jim Dow With an introduction by Ian Frazier Jim Dow’s photographs show an America always reinventing itself, discarding and preserving elements of its past, almost as though by accident. American Studies is a compendium of many of Dow’s best-known images, which were made over almost forty years of traveling the road with his large-format camera. Now in a second printing! Published by powerHouse Books and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies 136 pages | 115 color and black-and-white photographs $39.95, hardcover | ISBN 978-1-57687-565-0
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PEOPLE JM: Are you getting a lot more films from newcomers or from people who are established?
ST: We offer an Emerging Artist award every year, so that always calls attention to how many first-time filmmakers’ work we end up programming and that list grows every year. I think last year it was in the twenties. There are people at other events who feel that too many films are being made, and there are too many festivals, and that somehow that will water down the quality of work, but I don’t feel that way. A festival is a really unique experience because it’s a rare thing for a filmmaker to be present when his or her film is shown, to hear the audience react. JM: You were a filmmaker and studied film.
Sadie Tillery Director of Programming, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Last year Full Frame celebrated many accomplishments: three Full Frame award-winning films were shortlisted for Academy Awards, the festival was named one of the “Top 50 Film Festivals in the World” by indieWire, and director of programming Sadie Tillery was named one of the “Most Powerful People in Documentary” by Tom Roston’s POV blog. In this excerpt from an interview with Joel Mora, the publishing intern at CDS, Tillery talks about what it’s like to select and screen movies for Durham’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. JM: When you’re between festivals what goes on at Full Frame? ST: We have quarterly year-round programming. This summer we did a series of music films in Durham at the American Tobacco complex—screening them outside—and this fall we had a series of weekend showings, called the Full Frame Fix, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke that featured a few films that were sell outs at this past year’s festival and a few films that haven’t reached North Carolina yet. This winter we’ll do a series of screenings as well. A lot of our work as a staff during the year is figuring out the best and most efficient way to organize the festival for the upcoming year—the best ticketing systems and line systems. And we fundraise. An anonymous donor has agreed to match up to $25,000 in new gifts, so now we’re looking for new donors or for past donors to increase their donations to Full Frame. JM: Are you ever trying to top yourselves, think of new things for the festival? ST: Absolutely. We have this rare, intimate four-day experience, and we hear time and time again that what filmmakers really love is being able to come and speak with their colleagues and hear conversations that they wouldn’t be able to hear elsewhere. So programmatically, I think where we’re trying to grow and achieve the most, is how do we create more conversation around the art form? Last year we had this A&E speakeasy venue where we programmed one-hour panel conversations in between the bands of programming, so it was really easy for patrons to get out of the film and then pop in and hear a little bit of this conversation and go back and get in line for their next movie. JM: What films have you screened in past years that have really taken off? ST: It’s really exciting to be a part of a film’s—what’s the word?— springboard, and sometimes those aren’t necessarily films that we premiere or show for the very first time. A film that comes to mind is Buck, which won our audience award in 2011 and has had a really successful theatrical run. I think it’s mutually beneficial because they were able to dip their toe in the water by showing here in Durham and received a lot of audience support, won the award, and now Full Frame’s laurels are at the top of its trailer.
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ST: I did—I went to Hollins University in Virginia and studied film and photography. I was studying at Hollins when I started interning at Full Frame. I did a fair amount of work in 16mm, experimental stuff, some of it centering around my family. JM: How do you think your background in film influences your thinking during the selection process? ST: A few things come to mind. One is that having done some work with film gives you an appreciation of just how hard it is to make a good movie. I feel really grateful to have had some experience because I think it makes me a more conscious watcher. You’re looking for the reason a film doesn’t belong—it’s a very different screening process. I’m aware that to get to the really good work I will have to let go of other films. JM: So you’re cutting out more than adding on? ST: We have to. With 1,200 submissions and 60 spots, we have to be thinking about how to make cuts. The hardest part of my job is saying no, and it’s one of the biggest parts of my job and it’s heartbreaking. People spend years making their films, and there are many more wonderful films than we can show. JM: I read that your system of choosing isn’t necessarily based on rank but is more discussion-based. . . . ST: Yeah, it’s not based on written comments or on any type of score sheet but on conversations the selection committee and
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
April 12 – 15, 2012 The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of nonfiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, North Carolina, for a four-day, morning to midnight array of over 100 films as well as discussions, panels, and southern hospitality. Set within a four-block radius, the intimate festival landscape fosters community and conversation between filmmakers, film professionals, and the public. Passes go on sale January 5 through the Full Frame website. Pass holders enjoy special benefits at the jampacked four-day event, including the opportunity to buy tickets to their preferred screenings before the general public. Schedules and film descriptions will be online and in print the third week of March. The festival is a program of the Center for Documentary Studies and receives support from corporate sponsors, private foundations, and individual donors whose generosity provides the foundation that makes the event possible. The Presenting Sponsor of the festival is Duke University.
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staff has around each title. So much of what I’m trying to do is be a listener and a filter—carefully hear how films are affecting other people so that I can imagine how they might affect a whole room of people—a weekend of people. We’re looking for the whole package—for films that are affecting either because they’re visually striking or emotionally resonant or are exploring an important and timely subject or issue. JM: I won’t ask you about a favorite Full Frame film, because I know you wouldn’t tell me, but what about certain moments? And as the program director, what kind of legacy are you hoping to build? ST: There are so many moments, and they are all more about the people than they are about the films. When a filmmaker is walking into Fletcher Hall and sees a thousand people in the audience, it’s a wonderful moment. As for a legacy . . . I guess there are two main things, and one is to be able to look back and say, those were incredible films, an incredible spectrum of work over all those years, that filmmakers and audiences were able to appreciate. I hope to show films to the best of our ability, to be able to say that we grew an audience for documentary film by doing that. And more personally, as an individual in an industry that can be painful and full of rejection, I want to look artists in the eye and let them know we appreciate what they are doing because we all need their films.
Duncan Murrell CDS Writer in Residence
Duncan Murrell is an award-winning writer and journalist from North Carolina. He is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and The Normal School and a consulting editor at Southern Cultures. Murrell has written about living in New Orleans for a year after Hurricane Katrina, as well as on such topics as immigration, politicians, termites, vultures, and hogs. Duncan’s essay “The Meat Horses of Serbia” was recently named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011, edited by Edwidge Danticat. Joel Mora, CDS publishing intern, talks with Murrell about teaching documentary writing and CDS’s interest in enhancing and refining its writing program. JM: Congratulations on being featured in The Best American Essays 2011. There is an interesting line in that essay where you write, “I’m not a Dane. I’m an improviser.” I was wondering if you think about that in terms of your writing. When I read “In the Year of the Storm,” [about Katrina] none of what happens seems predictable, or at least the way you wrote it, it doesn’t. DM: I do try to improvise. I mean, I go into reporting or documenting with some ideas of what I want a story to be but not a complete idea. There’s this discovery process that happens when I sit down to write—of course I’ve already discovered a lot of it—but I try to represent that discovery process in the piece itself and that’s where I hope surprise, as you put it, comes in. JM: So you were in New Orleans a long time. If you were a journalist, you would get in and get out. Is this where the documentary writing comes in? DM: The kind of literature that I would like to make derives from that feeling of being a little bit unmoored and uncertain and that seems to me like life—we’re uncertain, we’re sort of poking forward in the dark. I’d like to get that feeling across, and it happens fairly often in my work, but the truth is that I begin like every other journalist/documentarian. I call a bunch of people, I do some phone interviews, I arrange to meet people, and early on I pay attention to all those pseudo-events like press conferences and rallies, but at some point I quit. Not consciously, but I find more interesting things to write about. JM: Let’s fast-forward a bit. What brought you to CDS? DM: After I published the story about New Orleans, I talked with some people here at CDS, and they wanted me to teach writing. So, I did. I’ve been teaching documentary writing one
semester a year for the last three years, and they asked me if I could help develop a more robust writing program, by suggesting things for the curriculum but also by doing things to help to establish CDS as a place for writing in addition to a place for film and audio and photography. One thing led to another, and they hired me. JM: Coming from a journalism background, I had never heard the term “documentary writing.” Is it “literary journalism”? DM: Documentary writing is a term that has been coined here, and in some ways it’s a term of convenience—it makes sense to have “documentary” in the title. You’re right, it is congruent with literary journalism, narrative nonfiction, and creative nonfiction in many ways, but I’ve come to the idea that documentary writing as a term is actually very descriptive of what we’re trying to do here. I think it’s essential as we move through the changes that are occurring in technology and the consumption of art, that we see the intersections between writing, photography, film, and audio. Documentary writing implies two things to me: a certain cross-media-rich approach as well as a departure from journalism. Documentary implies an expenditure of time. A documentarian is the person who is there after others have left. I think that is an ethic that we ought to encourage among writers. JM: When people think about CDS, they often think of images. How do you see writing fitting in? DM: There is a really unique opportunity here at CDS to think about writing outward-directed nonfiction writing in new ways. There is almost nothing hidebound about CDS, nothing written in stone—that you have to do things this way. That means there is a lot of opportunity to try something new in instruction, in what we produce, to think from the ground up. There is a growing concern—especially within journalism—that if you’re too tied to one way of doing things that the world moves past you. The best way of telling that story might ultimately be a written work or it could be a film or it could be an audio piece; we should have students leave here knowing how to tell a story in more than one medium. I would like writing to be a component of a well-rounded documentarian’s box of tricks. Technology is going to come and go and change, but if you are someone who is able to tell a story across media, you’ll always be able to follow it. There are just different ways of observing—different ways of simply going about your business. You can’t miss it here,
above: Duncan Murrell. Photograph by Joel Mora. OPPOSITE: Sadie Tillery. Photograph by Joel Mora.
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when you walk past students at banks of computers printing photographs, or hear John [Biewen] cutting some audio, or see Gary [Hawkins] across the hallway editing a film. You’re constantly reminded that you can team up. You can collaborate. Combining mediums opens up so many possibilities for a writer. That’s what’s different about this place. JM: How do you structure your course? DM: We’re doing two courses right now. One is an introductory seminar called Documentary Writing. The students write a lot, and that work includes one big, long final project; everything in the class builds to that. The other course, which I’ll be teaching with Kelly Alexander this spring, is organized like a creative writing workshop. There will be a tutorial aspect to the class, but there will be a lot of in-class writing assignments and then a final project that will take the whole semester to research and write. We will be encouraging students to get out in the world, do research, interviews, and report, but we also want to acknowledge that while journalism has often been taught as a science, it’s an art to know who to talk to, what is important and telling, and what is just boring and should be cut out. That’s all art to me. JM: Tell me about the Documentary Writing Speakers Series. Will that be an ongoing series of talks and readings? DM: Yes, we’re going to try to do that every semester. We might even do an event or two in the summer. This fall we had Jeff Sharlet, Siddhartha Deb, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Paul Hendrickson, who all come at this kind of writing in different ways, which helps us to continue to underline the fact that CDS is a destination for great writers and great instruction in writing. Many of the conversations I have with my students revolve around how to make a living as a documentarian or how to build a writing life. Being able to meet and talk with these talented nonfiction writers is useful to them, and encouraging. We have some recent graduates who’ve done terrific and are having some real success. I’m hoping to bring some of them back also.
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Tom Rankin To Russia with Duke on the Volga Dream CDS Director Tom Rankin traveled to Russia in September as part of the Duke Alumni Association’s Learn and Travel program. While on board the M.S. Volga Dream from St. Petersburg to Moscow, he gave lectures, met with alums, toured historic sites, and took photographs. This photograph was taken in Red Square in Moscow. Rankin says, “To travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow on the Volga River, passing through countless river locks and by numerous villages and towns, is to witness both the historic and contemporary Russia.” To see more photographs:
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Whitney Baker, Audrey Bell, and Joel Mora
This is the second year we have offered the opportunity to intern at the Center for Documentary Studies to recent college graduates. CDS interns gain broad experience in the documentary field, with particular focus on exhibiting, publishing, and producing a range of materials related to the documentary arts. Whitney Baker is a writer, programmer, and multimedia storyteller with an interest in local, community-driven stories. She received a bachelor’s in multimedia journalism and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011. As the web design intern, she assists Chris Sims with the creation and project management of sites for new CDS endeavors and helps streamline the maintenance of existing web resources. Audrey Bell received her B.A. in studio art and anthropology from Williams College in 2010, where she focused on painting, printmaking, and video. While in college, she received two grants to research and document the lives of smallholder agriculturalists in Mongolia and Eastern Europe. As the exhibitions intern, she assists Courtney Reid-Eaton with the installation and storing of exhibits and the transfer of materials to the Archive of Documentary Arts in the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke. Joel Mora earned a B.S. in 2010 from the University of Florida, where he studied journalism and Latin American studies while working as a multimedia intern at the Gainesville Sun. After graduation, he traveled the country with the rock band Morningbell and shot a documentary, which he is currently editing. As the digital arts and publishing intern he works with Alexa Dilworth in all stages of print editorial and production work and with Elizabeth Phillips on social media, web-based publicity, and marketing projects.
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Undergraduate Education Visiting Professor Elaine Lawless In the spring 2012 semester, Elaine Lawless, Curators’ Teaching Professor and Professor of English at the University of Missouri, will be the Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This collaborative, cross-campus visiting professorship affords significant opportunities for study, research, and participation in educational activities associated with distinguished writers, photographers, filmmakers, and other practitioners and scholars of the documentary arts. The Lehman Brady Professor teaches courses on both campuses and engages in lectures, film screenings, and other events for students and the general public. At the Center for Documentary Studies, Lawless will teach Ethnographic Writing: The Veterans Oral History Project in North Carolina, a course that will introduce students to the art of conducting oral history interviews, specifically interviewing U.S. military veterans (both women and men) who have served during times of conflict, including WWII, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other recent conflicts. The class will connect to a larger effort to establish a Veterans Oral History Project in the state. Lawless is the author of six books and many scholarly articles, and is the co-producer (with Elizabeth Peterson) of a documentary film on Pentecostalism, Joy Unspeakable. She founded and is the producer of the Troubling Violence Performance Project. A past president of the American Folklore Society (2007–10), Lawless serves on the board of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and is currently humanities coordinator for the national Veterans Oral History Project in Missouri.
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Featured Spring Courses Documentary Writing Workshop Duncan Murrell and Kelly Alexander
Workshop in the art and practice of writing in the long-form traditions of narrative nonfiction and literary journalism
Freedom Stories Tim Tyson Documentary writing course with a focus on twentieth-century racial politics and “storytelling” in the South across genres
Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Why, What, and How We Eat Charlie Thompson and Kathy Rudy A critical examination of food from production to consumption and an exploration of discourses around “locavorism”; dinner on themes and subjects will be served at each class (in conjunction with Duke Meal plans) To see the full listing of spring courses: cds.aas.duke.edu/courses/undergradupcoming.html
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Duke University welcomed sixteen students into the inaugural class of its first MFA program this fall. The Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) is a terminal degree offered jointly by the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image. The MFAEDA brings together two forms of artistic activity—the documentary approach and experimental production in analog, digital, and computational media— in a unique program that will foster collaborations across disciplines and media as it trains sophisticated, creative art practitioners.
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TOP: CDS director Tom Rankin welcomes the inaugural MFA class to Duke and their new facilities at the Carpentry Shop. Photograph by Joel Mora. bottom: Laura Poitras gave a talk in September at the reception for her installation in CDS’s Kreps Gallery, O’ Say Can You See, and as part of the MFAEDA’s Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, which launched this fall and also featured speakers Tamiko Thiel, John Akomfrah, and Bill Morrison. Photograph by Joel Mora.
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Continuing Education The Center for Documentary Studies offers a wide range of short courses, institutes, and workshops for adults who are interested in learning to do their own documentary work. These documentary arts courses, available through flexible admission with reasonable fees, involve instruction in photography, film and video, audio, and writing. Most courses are offered during the evening or on weekends, to accommodate the schedules of working adults.
2012 Summer Institutes
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Summer intensive institutes and weekend courses offer both local students and those who live in other areas the opportunity to participate in the CDS documentary arts program. Video, audio, photography, and Intensive Introduction to Documentary Studies courses are available during the summer months.
CDS makes these awards to undergraduates attending Triangle-area universities to help them conduct summer-long documentary fieldwork projects—oral history, photography, film and video, nonfiction or creative writing, audio, or active interest in community service. The winners’ final projects will be archived at Duke.
Documenting Medicine: A Day in the Life of a Patient
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Dr. John Moses, Liisa Ogburn, Erica Rothman, Elena Rue | Beginning | May 3–6 Portraits & Dreams: Literacy Through Photography
Katie Hyde | All Levels | May 3–4 Advanced Documentary Photography: Vision and Craft
Alex Harris | Intermediate/Advanced | May 10–13 Documentary Video Institute
Randolph Benson, Jim Haverkamp, Simone Keith, Erika Simon, Carol Thomson, Nicole Triche All Levels | June 9–16 Intensive Introduction to Documentary Studies
Michelle Lanier | All Levels | June 24–29 Digging In: An Audio Retreat with Big Shed
Shea Shackelford, Jesse Dukes, Jennifer Deer Intermediate/Advanced | July 9–August 4 Hearing Is Believing I: Audio Documentary Institute
John Biewen | All Levels | July 15–21 Hearing Is Believing II: Making It Sing
John Biewen | Intermediate/Advanced | August 6–11 Master Class: Nonfiction Writing
Duncan Murrell and Roger Hodge Advanced | August 6–11
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groundWORK Democracy Close to Home CDS Receives MacArthur Grant for Groundwork The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded the Center for Documentary Studies a $140,000 media grant in support of Groundwork, a radio documentary series telling close-up, on-the-ground stories of American democracy in action at the local level, stories that resonate with larger, national issues of critical importance to all Americans but which Washington is failing to adequately address: energy, immigration, environment, citizen involvement in government spending, civil rights, and the future of U.S. democracy. John Biewen, audio director at CDS, will be the series producer. Along with the audio documentaries, which will air in late spring 2012 and again as a one-hour program in summer 2012, there will be a website with audio and video from the six locations featured in Groundwork.
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New Spring Courses Ethnographic Writing: The Veterans Oral History Project in North Carolina Elaine Lawless | All Levels January 12–May 1
The Documentary Essay Rosencrans Baldwin | All Levels February 6–March 19
Can Documentaries for Social Change Make a Difference?: Learning from the History of Documenting Coal Appalachia Joy Salyers and Roger May | All Levels February 13–March 19
Using Your Voice to Tell Stories Katie Davis | All Levels Sunday, April 1
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The village of Kyegu before and after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, Yushu prefecture, Tibet, 2010. Photographs by Dorje Dondrub, winner of a 2011 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Award.
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Tom Rankin and Christopher Sims: Recent Exhibits CDS director Tom Rankin and web content manager Christopher Sims both had photographs in the fall exhibit Nine Visions: Photography with Southern Vision at the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History in Virginia. Rankin’s work was also shown in Outlands: Land Over Time at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2011. Sims was one of four photographers featured in the exhibit In Review: War organized by the Southeast Museum of Photography this fall.
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Teka Selman Guest Curates Philadelphia Show here., a show co-curated by Teka Selman, assistant director of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts, is on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through December 31. The exhibit explores how a sense of place exists in the work of artists from six particular regions—Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Raleigh-Durham, Detroit, and Kansas City. afa.org/Museum/Exhibitions/Currentlyy pOn-View/here/1027/
ABOVE: Elsewhere Collaborative’s Cabinet of Wonder (detail, mixed media sculpture, 2010), from the exhibition here. Photograph by Norah Hoover. RIGHT: Installation images from In Review: War. Photographs by Christina Katsolis / Southeast Museum of Photography.
JOIN & CONNECT JOIN FRIENDS OF CDS The best way to get involved at the Center for Documentary Studies is to support the documentary arts. This is easy to do, by making a contribution through Friends of CDS. Through their contributions, Friends of CDS help to support the Center for Documentary Studies, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization affiliated with Duke University. Because the founders of the Center for Documentary Studies envisioned an organization that would bridge campus and community life, CDS was established as neither an academic department nor a traditional university educational center. Rather, CDS functions as an independent not-for-profit organization, with its own budget and fundraising goals. Two Ways To Give: You may make a secure on-line donation at cds.aas.duke.edu/donate OR you may send a check payable to “Center for Documentary Studies” at Friends of CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705 For More Information: Contact Lynn McKnight, Associate Director for Programs and Communications, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University: docstudies@duke.edu
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December 2, 6 p.m. Book Signing
December 13, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. MFAEDA Work in Progress
January 30 MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts
Iraq | Perspectives: Photographs by Benjamin Lowy
Presentation of projects by students in the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Program
Application deadline for fall 2012 term
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
December 5, 11 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Documentary Engagement: Housing for New Hope Undergraduate class multimedia presentations Durham County Public Library, Durham, NC
December 5, 3–4:30 p.m. Rural Mexico: The People, the Land, and the Music Presentation by photographer Chris Vail Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Room, Rubenstein Library, West Campus
December 5, 11 p.m. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart First Book Prize winner Benjamin Lowy on his new book of photographs, Iraq | Perspectives, and his coverage of conflict zones Comedy Central
December 6, 10 a.m. MFAEDA Work in Progress Presentation of projects by students in the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Program Carpentry Shop, Campus Drive
December 9, 6 p.m. Certificate in Documentary Arts Graduating students present final projects Nasher Museum of Art
December 12 Online registration for Continuing Education Classes cdscourses.org
Carpentry Shop, Campus Drive
December 14, 5 p.m. Documenting Medicine Presentation
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January 30, 5 p.m. Information Session
CDS audio program director John Biewen discusses an audio project, “The Hospice Experiment”
For current and prospective students who would like more information about CDS Continuing Education courses and equipment
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January 5 Festival Passes on Sale
February 1 Full Frame Winter Series
Start of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival season (festival, April 12–15)
A special screening by the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
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Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC
January 18 Full Frame Winter Series
February 1–March 1 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
A special screening by the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC
January 23 Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland An exhibition of rarely seen color images from the Library of Congress’s Farm Security Administration photography collection, through July 23 Center for Documentary Studies
January 25 Full Frame Winter Series A special screening by the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC
Application period for summer research awards for undergraduates Center for Documentary Studies
February 6 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program Application deadline for fall 2012 Center for Documentary Studies
February 28 Shared Tables A Triangle-area symposium on local and global sustainable food systems UNC–Chapel Hill
February 29 Shared Tables A Triangle-area symposium on local and global sustainable food systems Duke University
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