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Groundwork

Colors of Confinement

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

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The Veterans Oral History Project

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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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SUMMER 2012 HIGHLIGHTS

Pro–gas drilling sign outside of Caroline, New York Young women chat during Obon, a summertime Buddhist festival commemorating one’s ancestors. Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming, July 1943 or July 1944. Insurgent in village, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 2005. From Malaria poster in a small hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 1941. Photograph of Louis Raynor in Vietnam during the Vietnam War;; “My Daddy” written by his daughter Sharon Raynor. Worker at the carbon black plant, Sunray Texas, 1942.

Man wearing bow tie, 1970. From by Shining Lee.

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June 21Print Auction

August 6Coney Island 40 Years

May 7Beyond the Front Porch 2012

Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland

Photographs by Harvey Stein1970 to 2010

Certificate in Documentary Studies Capstone Projects: May 7–September 8

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Explores Democracy Close to Home

UNC–Chapel Hill students perform written by UNC sophomore Rachel Kaplan. The performance was part of a Race to the Ballot campaign created by Jen Jones of Equality North Carolina, who ran across the state to raise aware-ness about the proposed amendment. ,

At the time of this writing, Groundwork feature sto-ries were slated for broadcast starting in late April or May; NPR’s Weekend Edition had not yet scheduled specific dates. A one-hour special, which will include all six of the features, will be aired near the Fourth of July. Check the Groundwork website for schedul-ing updates, to listen to the episodes once they have aired, and to contribute your own photos, videos, and stories. Episodes will also be available on the NPR and PRX websites.

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Immigration: Rio Grande Valley, Texas

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Field FindingsIn working on these stories, what stands out for me is the level of engagement by the people we’re follow-ing, and their faith that they can make a difference. Of course, we’re not talking about a random sample of Americans; they’re in our stories because they’re in-volved. But it’s a reminder for me that people generally are willing to get off their couches and take action when they believe they can have an impact. Too often, espe-cially in our politics at the national level, we’re given little indication that we can change anything, and we’re rarely even asked for our time and energy, just our votes and campaign contributions. These are stories about people who’ve placed a bet that, at least in the places where they live, they can join with neighbors and move the ball down the field.

I think it’s also true that the big divisions we hear about in the national media—right vs. left, red vs. blue—sometimes, but don’t always, exist in the same way at the local level. With something like the mar-riage amendment in North Carolina, or hydrofracking in New York, even at close quarters people may say to one another, “Oh, I see, you’re one of those people on the Other Side. No point in talking with you.” But just as often, issues at the local level take on more nuance. “Okay, I get that you feel that way about that aspect of the question, but don’t you agree that. . . ?” Unlike in Congress today, the stories in Groundwork suggest that in cities and towns there’s still give and take and the possibility of compromise.

— John Biewen, Groundwork series producer

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Special Jury Award The Law in These Parts

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Nicholas School Environmental AwardChasing Ice

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Lyndhurst Gallery | Through October 20, 2012

Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum

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Keep All You Wish The Photographs of Hugh Mangum

FULL COLOR DEPRESSION First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland

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Curator Bruce Jackson is donating the eight 24 x 30 inch and twenty-seven 30 x 24 inch digital pigment fiber prints from Full Color Depression to the Center for Docu-mentary Studies, which will auction them to the public.

Thursday, June 21, 6–9 p.m.Center for Documentary Studies1317 W. Pettigrew St.Durham, North Carolina

Bids may be placed in person at the June 21 event or e-mailed to [email protected] by Monday, June 18, 11:59 p.m. EDT. Identify the print or prints by title and ID number, and include a maximum amount for each bid. All prints start at $100; bidding will proceed in $10 increments. All in-person and online sales are final.

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PRINT AUCTION

Porch and University Galleries Through September 8, 2012

Beyond the Front Porch 2012: Certificate in Documentary Studies Capstone Projects

CONEY ISLAND 40 YEARS

UPCOMING EXHIBIT | Kreps Gallery | August 6–October 27, 2012

PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARVEY STEIN

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Breaking the SilenceIn February, a group of Vietnam veterans (and one Desert Storm vet) paid a visit to CDS to speak with the students in Michelle Lanier’s Veterans Oral History class. The trip was organized by Duke Humanities Writ Large Faculty Fellow Sharon Raynor. A visiting scholar from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, Raynor worked closely with CDS this semester to explore and document community experiences, spoken memory, oral history, and the culture of silence.

Veterans’ stories are a specialty and personal passion. When she was in middle school, Raynor found her father’s diary and photo album from the Vietnam War. From then on, she was on a mission. “I was constantly seeking answers to questions about the war and the profound silence that ensued and engulfed our family. These documents only told part of my father’s story, so I went in search of the rest.” Raynor’s quest didn’t end with her childhood. The men who visited CDS, including her father, Louis Raynor, are longtime participants in an oral history project that she started in 1999. Breaking the Silence: The Unspoken Brotherhood of Vietnam Veterans documents the lives and experiences of people like her father—men from small towns in eastern North Carolina who were among the first to serve in fully integrated troop battalions in a combat zone, who, Raynor says, experienced “violent loss and disappointing homecomings followed by decades of silence, of personal readjust-ments and survival.” Raynor encouraged the men to open up. Over time, bolstered by the support of the group, they did. “As the oral history progressed, the narratives continued to grow and develop,” Raynor says.

The group has since traveled around the state to speak at high schools, colleges, churches, and libraries to share their sto-ries and to help students understand the importance of documenting life experiences. For most of the men who visited CDS, “it was their first visit to campus as anything but a patient at Duke Medical Center or the Durham VA Hospital,“ says Raynor. “Connecting with students here at Duke was another remarkable moment of healing and recovery.”

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Junzo Itaya, Riyo Itaya, Sammy Itaya, Mary Manbo, and Eunice Itaya.


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Eric L. Muller

American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War IIFree to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese Ameri-can Draft Resisters in World War II.

Documentary Arts and Culture

In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America, Iraq | Perspectives: Photo-graphs by Benjamin Lowy, American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow, Literacy & Justice Through Photography: A Classroom Guide:

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Enter as Strangers: The Bodyguards Transforming East Durham

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CDS Awards UpdatesCDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography

Submissions accepted June 15–September 15, 2012.

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Relaunch: Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize

The best way to get involved at the Center for Documentary Studies is to support the documen-tary arts. This is easy to do, by making a contribu-tion through Friends of CDS. Through their contri-butions, Friends of CDS help to support the Center for Documentary Studies, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization affiliated with Duke University. Be-cause the founders of the Center for Documentary Studies envisioned an organization that would bridge campus and community life, CDS was es-tablished as neither an academic department nor a traditional university educational center. Rather, CDS functions as an independent not-for-profit organization, with its own budget and fundraising goals.

TWO WAYS TO GIVE: You may make a secure on-line donation at 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

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FILM 62012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Award Winners

EXHIBITIONS 7Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum Turn-of-the-Last-Century Portraits

Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s HeartlandPrints Will Be Auctioned to the Public in June

Beyond the Front Porch 2012Work by Certificate in Documentary Studies Graduates

Coney Island 40 YearsPhotographs by Harvey Stein, 1970 to 2010

PEOPLE 10Michelle Lanier CDS Instructor Discusses the Veterans Oral History Project

BOOKS 12NEW Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photo-graphs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

EDUCATION 13Undergraduate Education 2012 Certificate in Documentary Studies Graduates

Julia Harper Day Award Winner

Continuing Education Featured Course: Master Class in Documentary Writing

OTHER NEWS 15Duke Alums Photograph Cuba

CDS Awards Update

Christopher Sims Makes Top Artists List

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