View From a Window: William Gedney Photos in the “New York Times,” With Comments by CDS Instructor Margaret Sartor
Photos by William Gedney taken in New York in the late ’60s and early ’70s were the subject of a recent post on Lens, the New York Times photo blog. As Lens editor David Gonzalez describes these images, “From a window overlooking the Myrtle Avenue El, Mr. Gedney spun an urban narrative of surprising intimacy. Working [...]
Film Festival Favorite, “Stitched,” Screens Sunday, January 8, at the Center for Documentary Studies
On Sunday, January 8, film festival favorite Stitched will screen at the Center for Documentary Studies. In this documentary, director Jenalia Moreno follows renowned—and controversial—quilters Hollis Chatelain, Caryl Bryer Fallert, and Randall Cook as they prepare their work to compete in the 2010 International Quilt Festival, which draws more than 50,000 quilters. Stitched film screening Sunday, January [...]
Good Read: Interview With Duncan Murrell, CDS Writer in Residence
Duncan Murrell is an award-winning writer and journalist from North Carolina. He is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and The Normal School and a consulting editor at Southern Cultures. Murrell has written about living in New Orleans for a year after Hurricane Katrina, as well as on such topics as immigration, politicians, termites, vultures, [...]
Video Available: Photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier On His Book “Driftless”
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2006 winner Danny Wilcox Frazier talks about growing up in Iowa and going back to make the photographs in Driftless: Photographs from Iowa. Application information for the sixth biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition will [...]
Video Available: Sales of “Iraq | Perspectives” Soar After Ben Lowy’s Guest Spot on “The Daily Show”
Sales of photographer Benjamin Lowy’s prizewinning book, Iraq | Perspectives, have spiked following his interview on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Monday, December 5. The book has gone from #217,000 to #2,125 on Amazon, where it is currently the number-one bestselling book on Iraq, and ranks thirteen out of all books by or about [...]
Podcast Available: CDS Writer in Residence Duncan Murrell Discusses Life and Writing on WUNC’s “The State of Things”
CDS Writer in Residence Duncan Murrell was the guest on WUNC’s (91.5 FM) “The State of Things” on December 5 with host Frank Stasio. Besides CDS and its documentary writing program, the wide-ranging discussion touched on . . . military service, New Orleans, termites, and bow hunting, among other topics. Duncan Murrell on “The State [...]
Video Available: Photographer Benjamin Lowy on His Book “Iraq | Perspectives”
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2010 winner Benjamin Lowy talks about his process for taking the photographs in Iraq | Perspectives, and viewers can listen to some of the conversations about editing the book. Lowy will be signing [...]
Now Available Online: Jim Crow Oral History Recordings from the Behind the Veil Project
One hundred oral history recordings of African American life in the Jim Crow South—from the Center for Documentary Studies’ Behind the Veil project—have been digitized and are now available on the Duke University Libraries website and iTunesU. This digital collection captures the vivid personalities, poignant personal stories, and behind-the-scenes decision-making that bring to life the [...]
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 [...]
Photographer Benjamin Lowy’s “Iraq | Perspectives” Exhibition and Book Signing at Perkins Library
Photojournalist Benjamin Lowy, a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, began his career in 2003 when he was embedded with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division to cover the Iraq War. Lowy’s career as a conflict photographer has also taken him to Haiti, Darfur, and Afghanistan, among other places. Last year Lowy’s photographs from [...]
Teka Selman Guest Curates “here.” at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia
Teka Selman, assistant director of Duke’s Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts, is a guest curator for a new exhibition, here., that examines the role of “place” in American art. Through December 31 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 118 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 here. considers how place is not simply the [...]
World Premiere of “The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders” October 26–November 13
PlayMakers Repertory Company Center for Dramatic Art 150 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Wednesday, October 26—Sunday, November 13 Documentary theater at its best: The new play The Parchman Hour transforms the history of the 1961 Freedom Rides into lively firsthand experiences that ripple with the immediacy of the present moment. In 1961, a [...]
“Being There: The Work of Bruce Jackson” Symposium on November 4 in Buffalo
Acclaimed folklorist, documentary filmmaker, and photographer Bruce Jackson will be honored at a special symposium at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York on November 4. “Being There: The Work of Bruce Jackson” Friday, November 4, 7 p.m. Auditorium at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York The symposium will focus [...]
“Image and Meaning: Challenging History & Photography” Panel October 27 at NCSU
Image and Meaning: Challenging History & Photography An evening of thinking and talking about photography Thursday, October 27, 6 p.m. Gregg Museum of Art & Design Talley Student Center at North Carolina State University 2610 Cates Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina In conjunction with the current exhibition Earth with Meaning: The Photographs of Alan Cohen, the [...]
Latin American Film Festival 25th Anniversary Celebration on November 6 at UNC-Chapel Hill
Local filmmakers Rodrigo Dorfman, Altha Cravey, Penny Simpson, and Charlie Thompson of the Center for Documentary Studies will participate in a panel discussion on the UNC campus in conjunction with the 25th anniversary celebration of North Carolina’s Latin American Film Festival. Sunday, November 6, 4 p.m. Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center UNC-Chapel Hill [...]
Tim Tyson Discusses James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” on November 2 at Perkins Library
On November 2 at Perkins Library, Timothy B. Tyson, a senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies, will discuss James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time with Frank Stasio, host of NPR’s “The State of Things,” in a special live recording in the DukeReads series. Tyson calls Baldwin’s modern classic “one of the best [...]
“In My Mind” Film Screenings: Minneapolis (10/16) and Seattle (11/1)
In My Mind, a film from the Center for Documentary Studies, has been invited to screen at two film festivals this fall: October 16, 2011 Sound Unseen Minneapolis, Minnesota November 1, 2011 Northwest Film Forum’s Earshot Jazz Film Festival Seattle, Washington In My Mind Director: Gary Hawkins, Producer: Emily LaDue, Executive Producer: Tom Rankin In [...]
Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices: A Workshop with Story Consultant Fernanda Rossi
Friday, October 14, 6:30 p.m., through Sunday, October 16, 5 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham, North Carolina Presented by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), this workshop provides a unique opportunity to work with internationally renowned speaker Fernanda Rossi, story consultant to more than 300 films, including two [...]
In Review: War—Ed Grazda, Louie Palu, Lucian Perkins, and Christopher Sims
Panel Discussion: September 23, 6 p.m. Southeast Museum of Photography 120 W. International Speedway Boulevard, Daytona Beach, Florida Join photographers Louie Palu, Ed Grazda, Khalid Hadi, and Christopher Sims of the Center for Documentary Studies for a conversation about their responses to the global forces at play in the long aftermath of the events of [...]
Nine Visions: Photography with Southern Vision
September 16–November 13, 2011 Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, 975 Main Street, Danville, Virginia Opening Reception: Friday, September 16, 5:30–7 p.m. Curated by Glenn Scarboro, president of the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, Nine Visions includes the work of nine photographers who have Southern roots or ties. Four of [...]
“In the Footsteps of Elie Wiesel” Screening & Panel Discussion
Screening & Panel Discussion Wednesday, September 21, 7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Presented by the Echo Foundation, a social justice organization based in Charlotte The documentary film In the Footsteps of Elie Wiesel chronicles the journey of twelve American high school students as they trace life experiences and formative places of Holocaust [...]
“One Summer in Damak: Glimpses of Life in a Bhutanese Refugee Camp” Exhibition at Duke University
One Summer in Damak: Glimpses of Life in a Bhutanese Refugee Camp is an exhibition of photographs from Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal. The exhibit is part of the Kenan Institute’s Bhutanese Resettlement Project, a multi-site community-based research project in eastern Nepal and Durham exploring the effects of resettlement upon Bhutanese refugees. One Summer in [...]
“Outlands: Land Over Time” Exhibition at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery
CDS director Tom Rankin’s photographs are included in the group exhibition Outlands: Land Over Time at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia from September 10 to October 8, 2011. Also in the exhibition is work by Rachel Barrett, whose photographs from Bolinas in northern California were selected by juror Hank Willis Thomas for the 2010 [...]
9/11 Anniversary Events on Duke’s Campus Include Jonathan Hyman’s Photographic Archive of Vernacular Memorials and Free Screenings of the Film “Rebirth”
The exhibition Flesh and Metal, Bodies and Buildings, and free screenings of Rebirth, are part of a campus-wide observance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Other events are described on this site: http://today.duke.edu/2011/08/911roundup.
