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 [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
Online Catalog: Fall 2012 Continuing Education Classes
Browse through our online course listings for a wide range of classes for adults interested in the documentary arts—photography, film/video, audio, writing, and other creative media. Courses are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, and space is limited. The following designations assist students in determining the most appropriate course in which to enroll: 1. All Levels: Open to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Spring 2011 Issue of Document
The Spring 2011 issue of Document is now available to read online, featuring the First Book Prize in Photography, CDS Filmmaker Award, Travels with Mike, The Parchman Hour on tour in Mississippi, Summer Institutes, and more. Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for [...]
Nancy Kalow on “Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary”
Nancy Kalow is a folklorist and filmmaker who has taught at the Center for Documentary Studies since 2000. She attended Harvard University (A.B.), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A.), and was a Rockefeller Fellow at UNC’s University Center for International Studies. She has documented southern traditional music and material culture, Primitive Baptist [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC
Reality Radio Book Signing and Talk at Politics and Prose, Washington, DC May 15, 2010 “Reality Radio is a fabulous book I wish I could have read when I started at NPR in 1974. It would have shaved 10–15 years off the learning curve in discovering how to make great radio.”—Bob Edwards, host of The [...]
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.
William Eggleston to Judge 2010 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
William Eggleston to Judge 2010 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and The Honickman Foundation (THF), based in Philadelphia, co-sponsor this prestigious biennial prize for American photographers. The only prize of its kind, the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition is open to [...]
Jazz Loft Project Exhibition At New York Public Library For The Performing Arts At Lincoln Center
Jazz Loft Project Exhibition New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center On view through May 22, 2010 The exhibition, organized by the Center for Documentary Studies as part of a multiyear project, features never-before-displayed vintage black-and-white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene Smith, who spent eight years [...]
Recent Press Coverage For “The Jazz Loft Project”
David Friend of Vanity Fair on The Jazz Loft Project November 27, 2009 Leonard Lepote Show interview with Sam Stephenson December 8, 2009 Powells.com Interview with Sam Stephenson December 10, 2009 Fred Kaplan on the Jazz Loft Project in New York Magazine December 27, 2009 Communication Arts Webpick of the Day December 29, 2009
“The Bathers” Featured In The New Yorker, PDN, And In An Audio Podcast
New Features On The Bathers: Photographs By Jennette Williams New Yorker Review Macy Halford reviews The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams in a blog post on the New Yorker’s website. See Halford’s accompanying slide show of paintings from earlier time periods that Williams’s photographs recall, and read Halford’s thoughts on the work. “Imagine a vector, [...]
National Public Radio Features The Jazz Loft Project In December
Every Sunday in December, National Public Radio presents highlights from the Jazz Loft Project.
The Jazz Loft Project: An Interview With Sam Stephenson
Learn more about the Jazz Loft Project.
Daylight Magazine Podcast Features “The Bathers”
The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams is featured in the November 2009 podcast from Daylight magazine and on multimediamuse.org.
