Celebration of “One Place”: Exhibit Reception, Talk, and Book Signing with Editor Tom Rankin, April 25
Oxford American editor Roger Hodge calls the book “a masterpiece of documentary art.” Renowned photographer Alec Soth says it’s “an American classic.” An event celebrating the publication of One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia, will include a talk and signing by Center for Documentary Studies director Tom Rankin, [...]
View Online: Special Spring 2013 Issue of “Document” Celebrates New Photo Books and Exhibits
The spring 2013 issue of the Center for Documentary Studies‘ quarterly newsletter, Document, is now available to read and view online. This special issue celebrates the publication of two new photo books, with accompanying exhibits, from the Center for Documentary Studies: One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia will be published in April 2013 [...]
New Book and Exhibit: “One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia”
“I am frequently asked by people who have not seen my work why I spend my life documenting one simple place like Decatur County, Georgia. People confuse simple with small; they’re not the same thing. There are no simple places or simple lives. . . . . Life [in Decatur County] is like life everywhere, and I [...]
Read Online: New Winter Issue of “Document,” CDS’s Quarterly Publication
The Winter 2013 issue of the Center for Documentary Studies‘ quarterly newsletter, Document, is now available to read online, featuring a look at our current exhibits—photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Campaign for Braddock Hospital and photographer Gordon Parks’s 1956 photo essay from Life magazine, The Restraints: Open and Hidden; information on the upcoming Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; an essay [...]
Closing Reception for “In This Timeless Time,” and Author Presentation, at UNC–Chapel Hill, November 28 & 29
On September 1, 2012, through the fall semester, an exhibit featuring photographs from In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America, an award-winning book by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian published by the Center for Documentary Studies and UNC Press, will be on view at UNC–Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study [...]
Duke Visiting Artist Rob Amberg Presents His Work, Offers Free Doc Photography Workshops
Documentary photographer Rob Amberg will begin his residency as a 2012–2013 Duke University Visiting Artist with a presentation on his decades of living and working in Madison County, North Carolina, where he has chronicled the lives and stories of people in isolated mountain areas such as Sodom Laurel. His portraits of a changing culture reveal [...]
Event at CDS for Acclaimed Book “Colors of Confinement,” Thursday, September 27
Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II showcases sixty-five stunning images from a rare collection of color images taken by Bill Manbo, an internee at a Japanese American internment camp in the early 1940s. On September 27, editor Eric L. Muller will give a presentation on the photos at the [...]
“Coney Island 40 Years”: Artist’s Talk and Book Signing with Photographer Harvey Stein, Thursday, September 20
Join us for an evening with renowned documentary photographer Harvey Stein, who will discuss the work in his most recent book, Coney Island 40 Years, and an exhibit of the same name (click link for slideshow) currently on view in the Kreps Gallery through October 27. A reception will precede the talk and book signing; the event is [...]
Read Online: New Fall Issue of “Document,” CDS’s Quarterly Publication
Document features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. The fall 2012 issue of Document is now available to read online, featuring an in-depth interview with Eric Muller, editor of the acclaimed new CDS/UNC Press book, Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II; [...]
“Colors of Confinement”: New Book Features Rare Color Photos of Japanese American Internment
In 1942, Bill Manbo and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, a Japanese American internment camp in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings using Kodachrome film—a technology then just seven years old—to capture community celebrations and to record his family’s struggle [...]
Book Signing Event for “Finding the Game,” Doc Studies Grad Gwendolyn Oxenham’s New Book, August 23 at CDS
Five years ago Gwendolyn Oxenham, a Certificate in Documentary Studies grad and former Duke soccer star, boyfriend Luke Boughen, and Certificate in Doc Studies grads Rebekah Fergusson and Ryan White began their global travels to chase the soul of soccer by playing in pickup games wherever they could find them. The four filmmakers’ resulting documentary was [...]
Make a Short Doc with Help from “Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary,” a CDS E-Book
The Center for Documentary Studies’ first e-book, Visual Storytelling, is for anyone who wants to make a watchable short documentary using a consumer camcorder, digital SLR camera, or cell phone. Nancy Kalow, who has taught at CDS for twelve years and chairs the selection committee of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, has written a step-by-step [...]
New York Times Story on Japanese American Incarceration by Editor of New CDS/UNC Press Book
An opinion piece by Eric Muller, “Injustice, in Kodachrome,” ran in the New York Times on Sunday, June 24, with photos from the 1940s taken by Bill Manbo. The article outlines the history of Japanese American deportation and internment following the attack on Pearl Harbor, focusing on the experience of Manbo and his family, who were [...]
Book Signing Event with Authors Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian for “In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America,” Thursday, April 19
On April 19 Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian will sign copies of their new book, In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America, published by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. The book includes a DVD of their film Death Row and “is [...]
Duke MFA Visiting Artist Presentation by Photographer Jim Dow, Wednesday, March 21
Photographer Jim Dow will return to the Duke campus this week as a Visiting Artist in Duke’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program. He will present a slideshow and lecture, “Walker Evans as a Post-Modern Construction,” in the course Innovation and Tradition in the Documentary Arts; the event is free and open to the [...]
Now Available To Read Online: Spring 2012 “Document,” the CDS Quarterly Newsletter
The spring 2012 issue of Document is now available to read online, featuring an interview with Bruce Jackson, author of the forthcoming In this Timeless Time and curator of the Full Color Depression exhibit; a look at the new CDS exhibit, When Janey Comes Marching Home, and a new documentary radio project, Groundwork; MFA student project presentations; [...]
Read Online: Winter 2012 Issue of Document
The winter 2012 issue of Document is now available to read online, featuring the exhibition Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes From America’s Heartland, an interview with the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival programming director, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Award winners, courses, and more. Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported [...]
Second Printing of Photographer Jim Dow’s “American Studies” Now Available, Plus Podcast of His Talk at CDS
Jim Dow visited CDS recently to give a talk and sign copies of the few remaining first edition copies of American Studies, which was published earlier this year by powerHouse Books and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. The second edition was published in November. Here, Dow talks about the road he followed [...]
John Biewen to Give Keynote Presentation at Harrisburg Book Festival November 12
John Biewen, a radio producer and audio program director at the Center for Documentary Studies, and Joe Richman, founder of Radio Diaries, will give the keynote presentation at the second annual Harrisburg Book Festival in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on November 12. During the multimedia event, they will share their own stories and lead an interactive discussion [...]
New Book: “Literacy and Justice Through Photography: A Classroom Guide”
In 1990, photographer Wendy Ewald, with encouragement from Durham, North Carolina, school administrators and support from the Center for Documentary Studies, started the Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program, working in the Durham Public Schools to make photographs the basis for a variety of learning experiences across the curriculum. Since then, LTP has worked with numerous [...]
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Launches New Website
The Center for Documentary Studies and The Honickman Foundation (THF), based in Philadelphia, co-sponsor a prestigious biennial prize for American photographers, the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, the only one of its kind. Winners of the prize receive a $3,000 grant, publication of a book of photography, and inclusion in the prize’s new website, [...]
Fall 2011 Issue of Document
The Fall 2011 issue of Document is now available to read online, featuring the Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts Fall 2011 Inaugural Class, John Hope Franklin Award Student Documentary Prizewinners, Certificate in Documentary Arts spring 2011 graduates and projects, CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Benjamin Lowy’s Iraq | Perspectives, current [...]
American Studies: Talk, Book Signing, and Reception with Jim Dow
Photographer Jim Dow will be in Durham to talk about and sign his new book, American Studies, published by powerHouse Books and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. Beginning with photographs Dow made in the late 1960s, this retrospective book covers almost forty years, ending with pictures made at the close of the [...]
Benjamin Lowy’s iPhone Photographs of Libya
Photojournalist Benjamin Lowy’s photographs of Libya, taken on his iPhone, are being featured on the MSNBC photoblog. Lowy is the winner of the 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. His book Iraq | Perspectives will be published in fall 2011 by Duke University Press. Read the announcement about William Eggleston selecting Benjamin Lowy for [...]
