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The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended /video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. CDS values documentary

work that balances community goals with individual artistic expression. CDS promotes documentary work that cultivates progressive change by amplifying voices, advancing human dignity, engendering respect among individuals, breaking down barriers to understanding, and illuminating social injustices. CDS conducts its work for local, regional, national, and international audiences.

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EXHIBITIONS

Winners of the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards

Literacy Through Photography–Arusha, Tanzania

Sparkle & Twang: An American Musical Odyssey Photographs by Marty Stuart

Jazz in New York: A Community of Visions Photographs by Lourdes Delgado

Jazz Loft Project Exhibit Travels to the Nasher

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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Formally Joins Forces with CDS and Duke

Visiting FilmmakersMunkhzul Chuluunbat, Lee Daniels, and James Longley

Southern Circuit Film Screenings

Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos Screenings Across North Carolina

PEOPLE

Chris Sims Winner of the 2010 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers

Bruce Orenstein Joins CDS Faculty

Tom Rankin With the Maasai Project in Kenya

EDUCATION

New Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts

Undergraduate Education HighlightsArt of Farming Student Documentaries

Politics of Food: Land, Labor, Health, and Economics

Video for Social Change

Continuing Education HighlightsListening Institute

Show + Tell: Multimedia Training from Big Shed

Certificate in Documentary Arts Presentations

OTHER NEWS

John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards

Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow Anne Weber

Duke Innovation Program

Connecting with the Center for Documentary Studies

FRIENDS OF CDS

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Ann Tome Sintoyia, John Ole Tingoi, and other members of Maasai Cultural Heritage review the day’s Flip video footage with Tom Rankin, September 2010. Marketplace, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 2005, Theater of War: The Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan. Loretta Lynn, 2007.

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Guest Jurors:

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The Center for Documentary Studies and Daylight Magazine are proud to present the work of these gifted photographers.

Nandita Raman (Mishawaka, Indiana)Cinema Play HouseWinner and Juror’s Pick (Julie Saul), Project Prize

Elizabeth Moreno (La Paz, Mexico)Winner and Juror’s Pick (Vince Aletti), Work-in-Process Prize

Erica Allen (Brooklyn, New York)Juror’s Pick (Hank Willis Thomas), Work-in-Process Prize

Rachel Barrett (New York, New York)Juror’s Pick (Hank Willis Thomas), Project Prize

Priya Kambli (Kirksville, Missouri)Juror’s Pick (Vince Aletti), Project Prize

Jan Lieske (Hannover, Germany)Juror’s Pick (Jamie Wellford), Project Prize

Paula McCartney (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Juror’s Pick (Darius Himes), Work-in-Process Prize

Martin Roemers (Delft, Netherlands)Juror’s Pick (Jamie Wellford), Work-in-Process Prize

Daniel Stier (London, England)Juror’s Pick (Darius Himes and Alec Soth), Project Prize

Monika Sziladi (Astoria, New York)Juror’s Pick (Julie Saul and Alec Soth), Work-in-Process Prize

Find out more about CDS at documentary studies.duke.edu

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Winners of the Daylight/CDS Photo AwardsSeptember 13–December 23, 2010 Porch and University Galleries

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Cinema Play House“I love this project because the subject is great, and it is addressed beautifully on its own terms—you feel that it grew organically from a love and knowledge of the subject. The images are very beautiful and evocative, and the use of black and white film, which is also becoming obsolete, is so in harmony with the depiction of the theaters.” —Julie Saul

India has a long association with cinema. The first Indian film was made as early as 1899. Today, the country is one of the world’s largest producers of films, churning out more than a thousand movies a year, with an audience of 3.6 billion people.

My mother’s family owned the first talkies cinema in my hometown of Varanasi, India. As a kid, a trip to the cinema was a big deal. With my cousins, I would venture into the auditorium, explore the box office and projec-tor room. I would collect used bundles of tickets, post-ers, rejected film, almost anything that was part of the theater and wouldn’t be missed.

In the 1990s, home video became popular in India and movie theaters struggled to stay in business. Many theaters, including my family’s, closed down. The turn of the century saw a comeback for cinema halls, this time with smaller auditoriums and multiple screens that cater to the aesthetics of the “globalized” middle class.

When I began photographing the old theaters it felt like I was trying to in some way articulate child-hood memories of the visits to my family’s theater. As I explored the subject further, what became increasingly interesting were the idiosyncrasies of these spaces. I realized that the halls were mostly designed by the owners themselves. Each theater was unique, unlike the multiplexes. Over many years of being occupied, these theaters seemed to contain cues to the psyches of the people who built and operated them: as if the arrangement of the space was a mirror of the occupant’s interior. I felt an intriguing play of elements in these spaces. A ladder in place of the screen, like an invita-tion to climb out of the mundane, or chairs with the seating sequence broken, bubbles emerging from a crack in the upholstery. It is these reflections, these cues that absorb me—the manifestations of the interaction between people and these spaces over time.

—Nandita Raman

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“Elizabeth Moreno’s decision to present her photographs as diptychs allows us unusual and welcome access to her subject. Typically com-bining a portrait with an environmental still life, these pieces have a scope that is wide open, occasionally panoramic. They give us a sense of a person and a place, and how deeply interconnected they are—how a place can shape a person. Moreno’s pictures are smartly constructed, beautifully lit, and wonderfully sensitive to her sub-jects. I wanted to see more and know more.” —Vince Aletti

Cinema Play House

Far from the Cities, Close to the Earth.


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Literacy Through Photography– Arusha, Tanzania

June 28, 2010–January 8, 2011Kreps and Lyndhurst Galleries

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Sparkle & Twang: An American Musical Odyssey

Photographs by Marty Stuart

January 31–March 31, 2011Porch and University Galleries

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Presented in collaboration with Duke Performances: Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives

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Jazz Loft Project

Jazz Loft Project Exhibit Travels to the Nasher

The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in NYC, 1957–1965

Related EventsJazz Then and Now: A Conversation Between Branford Marsalis and Jazz Loft Project Director Sam Stephenson

Conversation with Bill Johnson

nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions_jazz_loft.php

Also on View in the CDS Galleries

Jazz in New York: A Community of VisionsPhotographs by Lourdes Delgado

February 3–July 10, 2011Kreps GalleryIn Jazz in New York,

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Jeff Ballard, percussion, 2000.Little Richard, 1995.


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VISITING FILMMAKERSMunkhzul ChuluunbatArtist in Residence at the Center for Documentary Studies

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James LongleyBarbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker

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SOUTHERN CIRCUITSCREENINGS

Tour of Independent Filmmakers, Spring 2011Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

February 11, 7 p.m.Woodpecker | Alex Karpovsky

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Alex Karpovsky The Hole Story Filmmaker Magazine

Trust Us, This Is All Made Up

March 11, 7 p.m.Southern Stories | Paul Harrill & Ashley MaynorSouthern Stories

Gina, An Actress, Age 29

Quick Hands, Soft Feet(Greenberg, Baghead)

For Memories’ Sake: A Documentary

Paul HarrillAshley Maynor

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Lee DanielsTalk at the Nasher Museum of Art

Precious, Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Monster’s Ball,

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CHRISTOPHER SIMSWinner of the 2010 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers

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April 8, 7 p.m.Scrappers | Brian Ashby & Ben Kolak

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Crime Fiction,

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Brother Towns/Pueblos HermanosScreenings Across North Carolina

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No Place to Live: Chicago’s Affordable Housing Crisis The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy

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American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver

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TOM RANKINWith the Maasai Project in Kenya

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BRUCE ORENSTEINJoins CDS Faculty

Bruce Orenstein. Ann Tome Sintoyia and women working with Maasai Cultural Heritage review images with Tom Rankin, September 2010.

A Jacalteco Maya family pictured in front of their home and store, Jacaltenango, Guatemala, 2009. The four brothers pictured here tell their stories in as does one additional brother living in Jupiter, Florida.

Jihad Lamp, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 2006, Theater of War: The Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan


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Spring 2011Politics of Food: Land, Labor, Health, and Economics Charlie Thompson

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Continuing Education HighlightsShow + Tell: Multimedia Training from Big Shed March 3–6, 2011

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All Things Considered, Weekend America.

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EDUCATIONNew Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts

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Ken St. Clair, Elevenses Llama and Miniature Donkey Farm, Rougemont, North Carolina, 2010.


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John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards

cds.aas.duke.edu/jhf/index.html

Lewis Hine Documentary FellowAnne Weber

The Geography of Marriage

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Duke Innovation Program

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Listening InstituteMarch 17–20, 2011

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Check out student work from past audio institutes on the CDS iTunes U site.

Register now for spring CDS Continuing Education courses and workshops!

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The best way to get involved at the Center for Documentary Studies is to support the documentary arts. This is easy to do, by making a contribution through Friends of CDS. Through their contribu-tions, Friends of CDS help to support the Center for Documentary Studies, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organi-zation affiliated with Duke University. Because the founders of the Center for Documentary Studies envi-sioned an organization that would bridge campus and community life, CDS was established as neither an academic department nor a traditional university edu-cational center. Rather, CDS functions as an indepen-dent not-for-profit organization, with its own budget and fundraising goals.

TWO WAYS TO GIVE: You may make a secure on-line donation at http://cds.aas.duke.edu/donate OR you may send a check payable to “Center for Documentary Studies” at Friends of CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705

For More Information: Contact Lynn McKnight, Associate Director for Programs and Communications, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University: 919-660-3663 or [email protected]

JOIN FRIENDS OF CDS

Connecting with the Center for Documentary StudiesDocument Also Available Online

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All events are on the Duke University campus unless otherwise noted. Please check the CDS calendar on the web for updates to this events listing http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/index.html

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November 1, 7 p.m.Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos

Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC

November 4, 7 p.m.Panel Discussion

Literacy Through Photography–Arusha, TanzaniaCenter for Documentary Studies


East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

November 6– 7, 1 and 3 p.m.The Full Frame Fix

Nasher Museum of Art

November 12, 7 p.m.Artois the Goat

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November 16, 5 p.m.“Diagnosis: A Photographer’s Guide”

John Hope Franklin Center


North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, NC

November 20, 7:30 p.m.Full Frame Benefit Screening

A Letter to EliaNasher Museum of Art

December 2–6The Parchman Hour

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Kenan Theatre, UNC–Chapel Hill Duke location TBD

December 10, 7 p.m.Final Project Presentations

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January 12, 7 p.m.Full Frame Winter Series Screening

American Tobacco Campus, Durham, NC

January 31Sparkle and Twang: An American Musical Odyssey

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February 3The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in NYC, 1957–1965

Nasher Museum of Art

February 3Jazz in New York: A Community of Visions

The Jazz Loft Project


February 9, 7 p.m.Full Frame Winter Series Screening


February 10, 7 p.m.Jazz Then and Now

Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC

February 11, 7 p.m.Woodpecker


March 3, 8 p.m.Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives

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Reynolds Industries Theater, West Campus

March 3– 6Show + Tell


March 9, 7 p.m.Full Frame Winter Series Screening


March 11, 7 p.m.Southern Stories


March 17– 20Listening Institute


March 31, 7 p.m.A Conversation with William Johnson

The Jazz Loft Project Nasher Museum of Art

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