Photograph by Harlan Campbell
A still image of “Play Each Other,” a live video performance-lecture held at CDS on October 22, with Eric Gottesman in Durham and Yamrot Alemu and Yewoinshet Masresha in Addis Ababa. This event was held in conjunction with the exhibition We Cheat Each Other, which is on view in the Porch Gallery at CDS through December 19, 2009.
pelada
film screening and discussion with the filmmakers
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 7 p.m.
Richard White Auditorium, East Campus, Duke University
Free and open to the public
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. Watch an advance preview of this unreleased documentary and meet the filmmakers: former Duke soccer players Rebekah Fergusson and Gwendolyn Oxenham, Duke graduate Ryan White, and former Notre Dame soccer player Luke Boughen.
CDS is one of the co-sponsors of this film screening and discussion. For more information, please see the Soccer Politics website.
Installation photograph by Patrick Yan
the collector: joseph mitchell’s quotidian quest
Closes to the public on October 24, 2009
Kreps Gallery, Center for Documentary Studies
more information
photographs by peter van agtmael
As featured in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2
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.
dorothea lange-paul taylor prize
Application deadline: January 31, 2010
The year 2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after the Center’s founding at Duke University, the prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize honors their important collaborative work.
The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story.
Download the application or learn more about the prize.
The photograph shown above on the guidelines is by Robert Dawson. He and Gray Brechin received the Lange-Taylor Prize in 1992 for their project Farewell Promised Land.
Poster from The Way We Get By
the way we get by
a film by aron gaudet and gita pullapilly
Friday, October 30, 2009, 7 p.m. (reception at 6 p.m.)
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Part of Southern Circuit - Tour of Independent Filmmakers
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. Film festivals throughout North America have bestowed numerous awards on The Way We Get By, including a Special Jury Award from SXSW and the Audience Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, among many other festival honors.
Images courtesy of Molly Renda
interview with deborah willis, author of posing beauty: african american images from the 1890s to the present
The State of Things, WUNC (91.5 FM)
September 30, 2009
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.
An exhibition of work from the book is currently on view at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts through October 18. Deborah Willis was 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 in 2000–2001.
Tri Star Mobil, 2007
packaged
Photographs by Jessica Silver
On view through mid-December 2009
Reception: Thursday, October 29, 5-6 p.m.
Allen Gallery, 2nd floor, Allen Building, West Campus, Duke University
Hosted by Provost Peter Lange
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.” Quietly 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.
From "The Oxford Project." Photography by Peter Feldstein. Text by Stephen G. Bloom.
doc u arts 2009: words and images
october 8–11, 2009
An intensive weekend of lectures, discussions, and small-group sessions focused on narrative nonfiction writing and the interplay between words and images in the creation of documentary work
The Doc U Arts institute, a gathering for more advanced students and professionals in the field, begins on Thursday evening and ends at 3 p.m. on Sunday. The course fee, $375, includes all events and hands-on sessions with top documentary practitioners in small-group settings. Evening events are open to the general public, with a $5 suggested donation.
screening with documentary filmmaker george stoney at unc-chapel hill
cds director tom rankin will lead discussion
October 16, 6 p.m. program (reception beforehand at 5 p.m.)
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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on October 16.