april 2010 jazz loft project related events at the new york public library

“hall overton: out of the shadows”
wednesday, april 14, 2010 | 6 p.m.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street
For information, call (212) 642-0142

The program is free and open to the public | Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

In partnership with the Jazz Loft Project, this evening program is devoted to exploring the monumental, behind-the-scenes influence of pianist, arranger, composer, and teacher Hall Overton.

The Duke Jazz Talks are part of the two-year Library for the Performing Arts’ project funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to present, document, and preserve jazz, contemporary dance, and theater performances and related oral histories.

Still from "In My Mind"

in my mind
(100 minutes color | gary hawkins, director; emily ladue, producer; tom rankin, executive producer)
monday, april 19, 2010 | 5:30 p.m.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Bruno Walter Auditorium
111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street
For information, call (212) 642-0142

Film screening of In My Mind, by Center for Documentary Studies instructors Gary Hawkins and Emily LaDue, based on a concert performance of the same title by Jason Moran and The Big Bandwagon on February 26, 2009, a fiftieth anniversary homage to Thelonious Monk’s original 1959 Town Hall concert. Q&A with the filmmakers and Jason Moran to follow. This event is free and open to the public.

From the series "Lined Up Borders." C-print 150 x 120 cm. Copyright 2008. Credits / Le Fresnoy, FNAC.

brown bag lunch presentation: anna katharina scheidegger
March 31, 12:30 p.m.
Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium

Photographer and filmmaker Anna Katharina Scheidegger — a2005 graduate of the prestigious Le Fresnoy, the National Studio of Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France — will talk about her work in an informal brown bag lunch presentation at the Center for Documentary Studies on March 31 at 12:30 p.m. She will focus on two of her photographic series, High Altitudes and Lined-up Borders. Please join us, and feel free to bring your lunch to the talk.

In High Altitudes the primary subject is the amazing force of nature as seen in the sublime Swiss Alps. Yet, within each image we discover a piece of military architecture built during World War II and nestled in the environment, raising questions about the political role of Switzerland during the war.

In Lined-up Borders, Scheidegger inventories and connects borders drawn by man in the mountains of Switzerland. The straight lines cross through nearly inaccessible terrain and offer a new spatial geometry. The border separates, marks a beginning and an end, and symbolizes the division between two départements, two countries or two lands.

SEE HER WEBSITE: http://www.annakatharina.fr/

Presented by the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Sol and Cuba, Old Havana, looking north from Alberto Rojas's 1951 Plymouth, May 23, 1998. Photograph by Alex Harris from his book "The Idea of Cuba."

advanced documentary photography: vision and craft workshop
Intermediate/Advanced | Taught by Alex Harris
Monday–Friday, May 10–14 (40 hours), 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Smith Warehouse and the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
Course fee: $795 (limit 10 students)

register now for this workshop

This small, intensive five-day workshop is intended for intermediate and advanced students who have created a relatively large body of photographs and now want to learn more about how to edit and present those photographs to publishers, galleries, curators, and the general public. Harris will work with students one-on-one and in group critiques to help them find their most personal and powerful images and then sequence those pictures in the most effective way. The second half of the workshop will be devoted to beginning to build a printed portfolio by learning digital workflow, advanced Photoshop techniques, and inkjet printing. Students will take key representative images from their edited body of work and learn to adjust these consistently and effectively in Photoshop, as well as to make a series of consistently rendered inkjet prints. Each day, Harris will share his own works as well as the work of other accomplished documentary photographers. There will also be an evening presentation by a special guest photographer followed by a reception.

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Mound Bayou, Mississippi. 2001. Photograph by Tom Rankin

tom rankin artist talk: “near the cross: photographs of the sacred south”
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Stadium Road and Ridge Road, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
March 30, 4:00–5:00 p.m.

The Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is hosting Tom Rankin on March 30, 2010  as part of the Hutchins Lecture Series. Rankin’s lecture is entitled “Near the Cross: Photographs of the Sacred South.”

Rankin began photographing the sacred landscapes and spiritual traditions of the Mississippi Delta in the late 1980s when he moved there to teach at Delta State University. He returns to Mississippi regularly to photograph some of the same churches and cemeteries as they evolve and change over time, reflecting the ongoing life of these holy spaces. Rankin expresses his deep connection and attraction to the Delta and its religious practices in his book Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta.
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Reverend H.D. Dennis, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Reverend H.D. Dennis built additions to Margaret's Grocery along historic Highway 61 in rural Mississippi. Reverend Dennis, a 92-year old veteran of WWII who was raised by his grandmother, herself a former slave, promised his wife Margaret that he would make a castle out of her grocery store if she married him. She agreed, and so Dennis spent the consequent 23 years creating towers, archways, and signs to distract people off the highway so he could preach the gospel to whomever stopped. The highlight of his creations is a small school bust that the's converted to a chapel.

god’s architects
Southern Circuit Film Screening and Discussion
March 26, 7 p.m. (reception at 6 p.m.)

Brought to you by the Southern Circuit - Tour of Independent Filmmakers

A reception for the filmmaker will be held beforehand at 6 p.m.

God’s Architects tells the stories of five visionary builders (in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and their enigmatic creations. With neither funding nor blueprints, these builders dedicate their entire lives to creating architectural worlds and realms that for most of us exist only in the wilds of the imagination. Beyond the builders and their work, the film indirectly functions as a personal essay that explores the nature of inspiration and dedication to a creative project, no matter how absurd or mysterious the circumstances may seem.

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documentary narrative speaker series: rebecca skloot
“Henrietta Lacks and Current Issues in Medical Ethics”
The 2010 Crown Lecture in Ethics by Rebecca Skloot

March 24, 5:30 p.m.
Presented by the Sanford School of Public Policy
Fleishman Commons, Sanford Building, West Campus, Duke University

Award-winning writer Rebecca Skloot will talk about her just-published book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Skloot became fascinated with the story of Henrietta Lacks in high school, and spent ten years researching what happened.

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Prisoners at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Birmingham, Alabama, meditate in their cells — Wayne Finch (top bunk), Edward Johnson (bottom bunk, left), Charles Ice (bottom bunk, right) — in Jenny Phillips’ film The Dhamma Brothers. Photo courtesy of Balcony Releasing, Ltd.

the dhamma brothers
Film Screening and Discussion (off-site)
March 23, 7 p.m.
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus, Duke University

Part of the 2010 Ethics Film Series “Control and Resistance”

An overcrowded Alabama maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Post-film discussion led by Ron Cavanaugh (treatment director at the Alabama Dept. of Corrections), Jenny Phillips (the film’s writer and producer), and Gary Hetzel (the Donaldson Correctional Facility’s warden). More information about the film and screening.

The Reality Radio website features links to all of the audio/radio pieces referenced in the book, as well as links to dozens of audio resources.

Reality Radio celebrates today’s best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In these twenty essays, documentary makers tell—and demonstrate, through stories and transcripts—how they make radio the way they do, and why.

Whether the contributors to the volume call themselves journalists, storytellers, even audio artists—and although their essays are just as diverse in content and approach—all use sound to tell true stories, artfully.

with essays by jad abumrad, jay allison, damali ayo, john biewen, emily botein, chris brookes, scott carrier, katie davis, sherre selys, lena eckert-erdheim, ira glass, alan hall, natalie kestecher, the kitchen sisters, maria martin, karen michel, rick moody, joe richman, dmae roberts, stephen smith, and sandy tolan

web marketing and publicity interns (8-10 hours/week)
center for documentary studies at duke university

We are looking to fill two Web Marketing and Publicity internships this summer.

summer 2010
(Internship start and end dates are flexible, but we are looking for a commitment of approximately eight weeks for each intern. 10 hours/week desired.)

primary responsibilities:
Our interns will work closely with the Web Content Manager and Communication staff in expanding and advancing our use of Facebook, “CDS Porch,” blogs, social networking sites, e-mail newsletters, and other web-based publicity options to increase awareness of CDS programs, exhibitions, and events. Our interns will also help in the re-design of the overall website for CDS.

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LEFT: Issaquena Street, downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, summer, 1992. RIGHT: Man walking down 47th Street on the Southside of Chicago, winter, 1994. Images from "Cedric Chatterley: Photographs of Honeyboy Edwards, 1991-1996"

Cedric Chatterley, who currently has two exhibition on view at CDS, is featured in an article in Duke Today on March 9, 2010. Chatterley has a third exhibit currently on Duke’s campus as well: Cedric Chatterley: Photographs of Honeyboy Edwards, 1991–1996, at the Special Collections Gallery in Perkins Library. Chatterley’s photographs of Honeyboy are now archived at the Duke Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library.

Update March 24, 2010: Dave Delcambre blogs about “The Amazing Mr. Chatterley and his Handmade Cameras” on nc artblog

view images from cedric chatterley: photographs of honeyboy edwards, 1991–1996