Winter 2011 Issue of Document
The Winter 2011 issue of Document is now available—read about the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, forthcoming books published by CDS, exhibitions, and more! Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. Each issue of Document includes a range of [...]
William Eggleston Selects Benjamin Lowy to Win First Book Prize in Photography
Benjamin Lowy, a war and feature photographer with Reportage by Getty Images, has won the fifth Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. Internationally renowned photographer William Eggleston judged the competition and chose Lowy to win the prize. He says, “Although I like the other photographers’ work, I felt that the Iraqi pictures [...]
The Jazz Loft Project Exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Named an exclusive top 10 photo show for 2010 by DLK Collection: “Undeniably one of the best photography shows of 2010 … this is a fantastic show, deep in scholarship and compelling in its imagery.” The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965, an exhibition of photographs and recordings of some [...]
Fall 2010 Issue of Document
The Fall 2010 issue of Document has now been launched! Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. Each issue of Document includes a range of stories; for example, engaging interviews with photographers and other documentarians working locally, in their own [...]
PhotoNOLA’s Focus on Publishing Symposium on Photography Books
Part of PhotoNOLA, an annual festival of photography in New Orleans, the Focus on Publishing symposium will include diverse voices, from artists to publishers, covering topics related to the art and business of photography book publishing. Friday, December 3, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. International House Hotel Conference Facility, 220 Camp Street, New Orleans Presented [...]
The Jazz Loft Project Receives an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award
The Jazz Loft Project, a multifaceted photography, audio, and oral history initiative of the Center for Documentary Studies, has been named recipient of an esteemed ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) recently announced the winners of the 42nd Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast, and [...]
Summer 2010 Issue of Document
The Summer 2010 issue of Document has now been launched! Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. Each issue of Document includes a range of stories; for example, engaging interviews with photographers and other documentarians working locally, in their own communities, and [...]
Photos from the Reality Radio Performance & Book Signing with the Kitchen Sisters
Photos from the Reality Radio Performance and Book Signing with the Kitchen Sisters, which was held July 26, 2010, in conjunction with the CDS summer Audio Institute, “Hearing is Believing”. More about the CDS publication Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound
Reality Radio Performance & Book Signing with the Kitchen Sisters
Reality Radio Performance & Book Signing with the Kitchen Sisters A public event in conjunction with CDS summer audio institute, Hearing Is Believing Monday, July 26, 7 p.m. Bay 7, American Tobacco Complex, Durham, North Carolina Award winning National Public Radio producers, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva of The Kitchen Sisters, began their collaboration within [...]
Video Available: Photographer Jennette Williams on Her Book “The Bathers”
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2008 winner Jennette Williams talks about her process for taking the photographs in The Bathers. In addtion, Mary Ellen Mark, the judge of the 2008 competition, talks about how she selected Williams as the [...]
Spring 2010 Issue of “Document” Available as PDF
Download the Spring 2010 issue of Document Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. Each issue of Document includes a range of stories; for example, engaging interviews with photographers and other documentarians working locally, in their own communities, and on projects across [...]
Reality Radio Book Launch at Third Coast Filmless Festival
Reality Radio Book Launch at Third Coast Filmless Festival In March, the Third Coast Filmless Festival’s “Words on Sound” book launch event to celebrate the publication of Reality Radio was part of a full day of listening to sound-rich audio features made by some of the most influential producers working today. Held at Chicago’s Museum [...]
Paul Kwilecki Remembered
Paul Kwilecki, born in 1928 in Bainbridge, Georgia, died in his hometown in early December 2009. Kwilecki had been associated with the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke University since the late 1970s; the Paul Kwilecki Collection was one of first and most prominent collections to be acquired by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special [...]
Just Published: Reality Radio
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 [...]
Winter 2010 Issue of “Document” Available as PDF
Download the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of Document Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. Each issue of Document includes a range of stories; for example, engaging interviews with photographers and other documentarians working locally, in their own communities, and on [...]
“Reality Radio” Launches at the Third Coast Filmless Festival
Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound by John Biewen, editor / Alexa Dilworth, coeditor Published by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books at the Center for Documentary Studies Launch Event Saturday, March 6, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Words on Sound: Book Launch and Signing With contributors Ira Glass, the Kitchen Sisters, and [...]
The New Issue of “Document” has Launched!
The re-designed Document has launched and is going quarterly! Copies are available now in the front lobby at CDS. Or to be sure you receive every issue, join Friends of CDS. Behind-the-scenes iPhone photographs of the Document press check by Bonnie Campbell.
“My Rise and Fall: Roger Hodge on The State of Magazines”
“My Rise and Fall: Roger Hodge on The State of Magazines” Friday, March 5, 7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium Roger Hodge, until recently the editor of Harper’s Magazine, will discuss the prospects of long-form journalism into the future as he recounts his experiences working with writers and offers his perspectives on the shifting [...]
“Today” Show Video Segment And “New York Times” Piece Profile The Jazz Loft Project
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Today Show Friday, November 13, 2009 Watch the interview with Sam Stephenson, Jazz Loft Project Director, from the broadcast. New York Times Sunday, November 15, 2009 “The most chaotic and soulful gift book this year. . . an elegiac stew of sight and [...]
Documentary Writing: A Conversation With Roger Hodge And Duncan Murrell
Documentary Writing: A Conversation With Roger Hodge And Duncan Murrell March 4, 2009 6:30 p.m. Please join us for a conversation about documentary writing — what defines the genre, where it’s practiced, why it makes a lasting impact — with the editor of Harper’s Magazine and an accomplished journalist whose mastery of long-form narrative writing [...]
