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Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
In "Undrabörn/Extraordinary Child," Mary Ellen Mark portrays in intimate detail the lives of Icelandic children coping with a variety of physical and mental challenges as they go about their daily activities. Moving, poignant, sad and joyous, these photographs take us into a reality that adjoins our own but is seldom s...een.
Exhibition-related film screening November 11 at the Nasher Museum of Art: "Alexander," with Q&A with filmmaker Martin Bell and Mary Ellen Mark
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Exhibition-related film screening November 11 at the Nasher Museum of Art: "Alexander," with Q&A with filmmaker Martin Bell and Mary Ellen Mark
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"Given the ever-present threat of raids and deportations, I was concerned about how best to help young immigrants who were undocumented tell their stories — how to create a documentary about their lack of documents?"
Learn more about Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow Rebecca Herman's project, and see her videos "Northbound"... and "Heroinas." The videos are also available for viewing on our CDS iTunes U site and under our Facebook "Video" tab.Read More
Learn more about Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow Rebecca Herman's project, and see her videos "Northbound"... and "Heroinas." The videos are also available for viewing on our CDS iTunes U site and under our Facebook "Video" tab.Read More
Source: cds.aas.duke.edu
GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATIONOverview of ProgramStaffContactPartner NGOsSupporters LEWIS HINE FELLOWSOverview of Hine FellowsHistory of Hine FellowsCurrent and Past Hine FellowsRole of Hine FellowsBecoming ...
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University "Love on Delivery," "Ellen Ciompi: A Neighbor in Our Town," and "Birth by Charity, Death by Intolenance" among the 2009 Video institute short videos now available for view on "CDS Porch" and the CDS iTunes U site.
Source: www.cdsporch.org
Videos from this summer’s video institute are now available for on the CDS site on iTunes U. You can view or download the 12 video shorts for free. Three of the videos are available for viewing below.
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From the Washington Post review of "The Way We Get By," a documentary film about airport troop greeters at Bangor Int'l Airport in Maine. Come to the screening and filmmaker reception at CDS Friday night.
"No one comes home in a body bag. There are no dusty dispatches from Baghdad or Helmand province. . . . There are no... protests. There is no rhetoric. It's not that kind of war documentary. 'The Way We Get By' is about three people, not about military or political combat. It strikes a deep, rich vein of emotion that flows through America's elderly, and it should be required viewing for those who think they know exactly what America is about."Read More
"No one comes home in a body bag. There are no dusty dispatches from Baghdad or Helmand province. . . . There are no... protests. There is no rhetoric. It's not that kind of war documentary. 'The Way We Get By' is about three people, not about military or political combat. It strikes a deep, rich vein of emotion that flows through America's elderly, and it should be required viewing for those who think they know exactly what America is about."Read More
Source: www.cdsporch.org
A deeply moving film about life and how to live it, The Way We Get By begins as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about airport troop greeters. The film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling, and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war, and mortality. ...
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Come meet the filmmakers behind "Pelada" this Thursday: former Duke soccer players Rebekah Fergusson and Gwendolyn Oxenham, Duke graduate Ryan White, and former Notre Dame soccer player Luke Boughen.
They'll be showing an advance preview of their much-anticipated documentary about their travels playing pick-up soccer g...ames in Brazil, Kenya, Israel, Iran and beyond, and what they learned about the power and meaning of the sport along the way. Follow the link for details.Read More
They'll be showing an advance preview of their much-anticipated documentary about their travels playing pick-up soccer g...ames in Brazil, Kenya, Israel, Iran and beyond, and what they learned about the power and meaning of the sport along the way. Follow the link for details.Read More
Source: www.cdsporch.org
Part of the “Soccer Politics” film series, Pelada highlights two young soccer players who tour the world playing pick-up games in Brazil, Kenya, Israel, Iran and beyond, learning about the power and meaning of the sport along the way. ...
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In "We Can't Handle It," an op-ed piece written for "The Chronicle," Duke senior Courtney Han critiques "The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams" exhibition on display in Perkins Library.
http://dukechronicle.com/article/we-can’
What do you think of Jennette Williams's photographs and the choice of wher...e to display them?
Images from the exhibition and book can be seen at:
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/books/bathers.ht
A video walk through the exhibition at Duke can be seen below.Read More
http://dukechronicle.com/article/we-can’
What do you think of Jennette Williams's photographs and the choice of wher...e to display them?
Images from the exhibition and book can be seen at:
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/books/bathers.ht
A video walk through the exhibition at Duke can be seen below.Read More
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Two items of interest related to exhibits at CDS this week:
10/22 "Transcontinental Video Feed Performance" between Ethiopia and the U.S.
10/25 last day to see the exhibit "The Collector: Joseph Mitchell's Quotidian Quest"
Details at http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/nowonvi
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Peter van Agtmael was one of the photographers featured in "25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2," which was published in the spring of 2008 by powerHouse Books and CDS Books at the Center for Documentary Studies. Recently, van Agtmael has received wide press coverage following publication of his... 2009 book, "2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die," including being the subject of Bob Herbert’s op-ed column in "The New York Times."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/opinio
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/opinio
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Documentary filmmaker George C. Stoney, 93, creator of a film used around the world by UNESCO and other landmark films, will participate in a public screening and discussion at the UNC-Chapel Hill on Friday, October 16.
The screening will include clips from six of Stoney’s films. Tom Rankin, director of CDS, will lead the question-and-answer session. Free and open to the public.
Source: www.cdsporch.org
screening with documentary filmmaker george stoney at unc-chapel hillcds director tom rankin will lead discussionOctober 16, 6 p.m. program (reception beforehand at 5 p.m.)
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Guidelines and application forms are now available for the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor prize, a $20,000 award given annually by CDS to a writer and a photographer collaborating in the early stages of a documentary project. Application deadline is January 31, 2010.
Source: cds.aas.duke.edu
Application Materials Download application (177 kb) Applications Images can originate in any format, but must be submitted digitally on cd. (No e-mail submission of images is accepted.) All written materials ...
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Celebrate the Jazz Loft Project book release and website launch in New York City.
Reading by author Sam Stephenson and music by Ronnie Free with jazz students from the New School
The Jazz Loft Project:
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue 1957-1965
by Sam Stephenson
Published by Alfred A. Knopf i...n association
with the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke University
The Jazz Loft Project on sale November 24 Pre-order now!
The Jazz Loft Project is Publishers Weekly
Pick of the Week!
"This will be an essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in the history of New York."
-- Publishers Weekly 9/21/2009
W. Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft photos featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Paris Review with an introductory essay by Jazz Loft Project Director Sam Stephenson. On newsstands now.
Authored by Jazz Loft Project director Sam Stephenson, this book--a kaleidoscopic, non-linear sequence of photographs, tape box cover imagery, anecdotes, and episodic text drawn from project interviews and loft tapes--features approximately 175 photographs made by Smith in the loft building that was the site of legendary after-hours jazz jam sessions. The book (288 pages, 180 photographs, $40), published by Alfred A. Knopf and CDS Books, will be available in local bookstores in November 2009. Advance orders can be placed on-line at Amazon.com.
"For jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in mid-century New York, this book will be essential."Read More
Reading by author Sam Stephenson and music by Ronnie Free with jazz students from the New School
The Jazz Loft Project:
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue 1957-1965
by Sam Stephenson
Published by Alfred A. Knopf i...n association
with the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke University
The Jazz Loft Project on sale November 24 Pre-order now!
The Jazz Loft Project is Publishers Weekly
Pick of the Week!
"This will be an essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in the history of New York."
-- Publishers Weekly 9/21/2009
W. Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft photos featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Paris Review with an introductory essay by Jazz Loft Project Director Sam Stephenson. On newsstands now.
Authored by Jazz Loft Project director Sam Stephenson, this book--a kaleidoscopic, non-linear sequence of photographs, tape box cover imagery, anecdotes, and episodic text drawn from project interviews and loft tapes--features approximately 175 photographs made by Smith in the loft building that was the site of legendary after-hours jazz jam sessions. The book (288 pages, 180 photographs, $40), published by Alfred A. Knopf and CDS Books, will be available in local bookstores in November 2009. Advance orders can be placed on-line at Amazon.com.
"For jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in mid-century New York, this book will be essential."Read More
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Join the Jazz Loft Project, the Splinter Group, and the Regulator Bookshop in celebrating the Jazz Loft Project book release and website launch.
6 p.m.: doors open
7 p.m.: reading by author Sam Stephenson
8 p.m.: music by the jazz loft legend Ronnie Free and his trio featuring guitarist Royce Campbell
The Jazz Loft Projec...t:
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue 1957-1965
by Sam Stephenson
Published by Alfred A. Knopf in association
with the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke University
The Jazz Loft Project on sale November 24 Pre-order now!
The Jazz Loft Project is Publishers Weekly
Pick of the Week!
"This will be an essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in the history of New York."
-- Publishers Weekly 9/21/2009
W. Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft photos featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Paris Review with an introductory essay by Jazz Loft Project Director Sam Stephenson. On newsstands now.
Authored by Jazz Loft Project director Sam Stephenson, this book--a kaleidoscopic, non-linear sequence of photographs, tape box cover imagery, anecdotes, and episodic text drawn from project interviews and loft tapes--features approximately 175 photographs made by Smith in the loft building that was the site of legendary after-hours jazz jam sessions. The book (288 pages, 180 photographs, $40), published by Alfred A. Knopf and CDS Books, will be available in local bookstores in November 2009. Advance orders can be placed on-line at Amazon.com.
"For jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in mid-century New York, this book will be essential."
- Publishers Weekly, 9/7/2009Read More
6 p.m.: doors open
7 p.m.: reading by author Sam Stephenson
8 p.m.: music by the jazz loft legend Ronnie Free and his trio featuring guitarist Royce Campbell
The Jazz Loft Projec...t:
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue 1957-1965
by Sam Stephenson
Published by Alfred A. Knopf in association
with the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke University
The Jazz Loft Project on sale November 24 Pre-order now!
The Jazz Loft Project is Publishers Weekly
Pick of the Week!
"This will be an essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in the history of New York."
-- Publishers Weekly 9/21/2009
W. Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft photos featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Paris Review with an introductory essay by Jazz Loft Project Director Sam Stephenson. On newsstands now.
Authored by Jazz Loft Project director Sam Stephenson, this book--a kaleidoscopic, non-linear sequence of photographs, tape box cover imagery, anecdotes, and episodic text drawn from project interviews and loft tapes--features approximately 175 photographs made by Smith in the loft building that was the site of legendary after-hours jazz jam sessions. The book (288 pages, 180 photographs, $40), published by Alfred A. Knopf and CDS Books, will be available in local bookstores in November 2009. Advance orders can be placed on-line at Amazon.com.
"For jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in mid-century New York, this book will be essential."
- Publishers Weekly, 9/7/2009Read More
Time:6:00PM Thursday, December 3rd
Location:West End Wine Bar
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Seeking out places in Durham where people shop on a daily basis, Jessica Silver takes her camera into spaces we know but seldom look at with consideration or care. A 2008 Duke graduate, Silver writes of her "Packaged" series: “I wanted to observe the spaces people pass through all the time but don’t really see.” Quietl...y moving through these stations of commerce and building the immediate trust necessary to make a picture, Silver brings us face to face with the complexity of color, the cacophony of advertisement and display, and the profoundly extraordinary nature of ordinary and mundane moments.
Learn more at: http://www.cdsporch.org/?p=926
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On October 1, Deborah Willis filled the CDS auditorium for a talk and book signing for "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present." If you missed her presentation, you can listen to an audio interview of her speaking with host Frank Stasio about the book on WUNC’s (91.5 FM) program, "The State of Things." http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0930c09.
Source: wunc.org
While studying photography in the 1970s, Deborah Willis found it hard to relate to images of beauty in a visual culture that largely excluded African-American subjects.
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Artists' talk (with Steve Featherstone and Paul Maliszewski) this Thursday, October 8, for the exhibit "The Collector: Joseph Mitchell's Quotidian Quest."
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/nowonvi
