Watch Video: Duke Students Film Renowned Dance Company
Duke students in an intermediate documentary filmmaking class taught by CDS film instructor Gary Hawkins—Performance-Based Nonfiction—filmed the Alonzo King LINES Ballet during the company’s residency at Duke. Watch this video of dancers performing Scheherazade, King’s reimagining of the famous 1910 work of the Ballets Russes, which made its American premiere at Duke.
Video Available: Photographer Larry Schwarm on His Book “On Fire”
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2002 winner Larry Schwarm talks about his book On Fire, and how he tried to make the photographs of fires look the way they felt. Application information for the sixth biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition will [...]
Video Available: Installing “Full Color Depression” at CDS
Exhibitions director Courtney Reid-Eaton and exhibitions intern Audrey Bell spent more than two days installing Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland, at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The exhibit, which is a collection of some of the lesser-known color images taken by the Farm Security Administration photography team during Depression-era [...]
Watch Videos: Final Projects of Fall 2011 Certificate in Documentary Arts Graduates
Throughout the year, CDS offers continuing education courses in the documentary arts to people of all ages and backgrounds. Some choose to enroll in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program, which offers a more structured sequence of courses culminating in the Final Seminar in Documentary Studies, where students finish and present a substantial documentary work—photography, [...]
Video Available: Photographer Steven B. Smith on His Book “The Weather and a Place to Live””
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2004 winner Steven B. Smith talks with Maria Morris Hambourg, the founding curator of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about how the images of Southern California in The Weather and a Place [...]
Video Available: Panel Discussion—”Art and Advocacy”—From the 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
In 2011 the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival introduced panel conversations with filmmakers and other industry professionals. This panel on Art and Advocacy, covered the following ground: As documentarians struggle to finance their films, organizations with advocacy agendas become a rich source of funding. Does this present a dilemma for filmmakers who might not have [...]
Videos Available, Press “Play”: Duke Students Film Big Boi and MSTRKRFT at the Yorktown Throwdown
Last fall, Center for Documentary Studies film instructor Gary Hawkins and Emily LaDue, production coordinator at Duke’s program in the Arts of the Moving Image, took a vanload of current and former Duke film-production students to the Yorktown Throwdown in Charleston, South Carolina. The mission: to film Big Boi and dance-electronic duo MSTRKRFT at the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Photographer Chris Vail on Rural Mexico: The People, the Land, and the Music, December 5 at Perkins Library
A visiting artist at the Center for Documentary Studies, Chris Vail has been a documentary and news photographer for more than 30 years. He is currently documenting cultural regions of Mexico as defined by various forms of son, a genre of traditional Mexican music. Monday, December 5, 3–4:30 p.m. Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Room, [...]
Undergraduate Documentaries: Stories of Homelessness and Finding Home Again, December 5 at the Durham County Library
Eleven Duke undergraduates from the Center for Documentary Studies and the Hart Leadership Program will present their short documentaries on homelessness or formerly homeless individuals living in the Triangle at an event hosted by Housing for New Hope, an organization that has been working for almost twenty years to prevent and end homelessness in Durham [...]
Podcast Available: “W. Eugene Smith’s Caregiving Photo-Essays,” By Sam Stephenson
In this talk, “W. Eugene Smith’s Caregiving Photo Essays,” writer Sam Stephenson examines Smith’s career-long concern with caregiving, including his famous photographic essays such as “Nurse Midwife,” “Country Doctor,” “Albert Schweitzer: A Man of Mercy,” and “Minimata.” Sam Stephenson (born in 1966 in Chapel Hill) is a writer who grew up in Washington, North Carolina. [...]
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 [...]
Podcast Available: “Can Photography Make You a Better Doctor?: Reflections on a Life in Photography and Medicine,” By John Moses
In this talk, “Can Photography Make You a Better Doctor? Reflections on a Life in Photography and Medicine,” Duke pediatrician and photographer John Moses discusses how he has used photography over the past twenty-five years to better understand the lives of his patients and hopefully to become a better doctor. Moses first came to photography [...]
Register Now for “Performance Storytelling” Workshop November 12 with Jeff Polish
“Performance Storytelling” is a one-day CDS Continuing Education workshop (Saturday, November 12, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; bring a bag lunch) that will explore the process of developing a short personal narrative to be told in front of an audience. Students, with instructor guidance, will begin by analyzing successful stories and performances at “The Monti StorySLAM,” a [...]
Laura Poitras Artist’s Talk and Reception September 20 at CDS
O’ Say Can You See, a gallery installation by artist Laura Poitras, is on view in the Kreps Gallery at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, July 25–October 22, 2011. Laura Poitras Artist’s Talk and Reception September 20, 2011, 6–9 p.m., talk at 7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies Read more about the [...]
Documenting Medicine Fellow Christopher Jones: Palliative Care Documentary Video
In this talk, Hospice/Palliative Care Medicine Fellow Christopher Jones discusses the use of documentary within medicine and presents an 8-minute piece he produced with caregivers in palliative care. With this documentary project, Dr Jones hoped to tell the story of palliative care using interviews with nurses, social workers, chaplains and aids. “I wanted to share what [...]
Continuing Education Certificate Projects Spring 2011
View the final projects of the graduates in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program in spring 2011: John Crane, Paul Deblinger, Eric Douglas, Chelsea Flowers, Conrad Fulkerson, Paige Greason, Jeremy Helton, Eileen Heyes, and Kurney Ramsey, Jr. Videos are available to watch here and on CDS Vimeo. Read more about the spring 2011 Certificate in [...]
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen, W. Calvin Anderson, Jaisun McMillian, and Victor Stone: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructors
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen, W. Calvin Anderson, Jaisun McMillian, and Victor Stone will be teaching Then and Now: A Hayti Civics Course in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Kelvin De’Marcus [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Summer Documentary Camp 2011
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival kicked off its first-ever documentary summer camp for teens in 2011. A handpicked group of students from Southern High School in Durham, North Carolina, participated in a five-week workshop in which they made several short documentary films. The camp was led by award-winning filmmakers Nic Beery and Todd Tinkham. [...]
“Whiskey and Geography”: “Spirits of Just Men” Excerpts Featured on Southern Spaces
The online journal Southern Spaces, produced at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, recently published two excerpts from Charles Thompson’s new book, Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World. The first excerpt, a video produced by Marissa Katarina Bergmann, offers glimpses of modern-day Shooting Creek juxtaposed with [...]
Press Coverage for “American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow”
Recent news and press coverage for the publication American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow and the accompanying exhibition at Janet Borden Gallery in New York: “Jim Dow Hits the Road.” The New Yorker Photo Booth blog. Posted by Caroline Hirsch. July 26, 2011. “Only in America: Roadside Scenes.” Life online photo gallery. June 1, 2011. [...]
Full Frame 2011 Movies on the Lawn Summer Series
For the second year in a row, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is collaborating with American Tobacco to present Movies on the Lawn. This summer’s series features four music documentaries that will take you on a journey from music fan to concert goer to reminiscing with iconic songwriting legends. Screenings are free and open [...]
