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Olive Branch: Twenty-five Years in the Life of Mark Fisher and Cedric Chatterley
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Reciprocity: Cedric Chatterley's Handmade Cameras
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Walls That Speak
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Southern Circuit 2009–2010 Tour of Independent Filmmakers
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Fresh Docs: Work in Progress
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Special CDS course opportunity: "The Documentary Theater Project" with Mike Wiley. Register now using our on-line system.
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New CDS Publications
Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound

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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965

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The Jazz Loft Project selected as Pick of the Week by Publishers Weekly, September 21, 2009

Featured in the fall 2009 issue of the Paris Review


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The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams

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Winner of the fourth biennial Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize




CDS Announcements

William Eggleston to judge 2010 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography

The Jazz Loft Project exhibition on view at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center February 17–May 22

Free photography workshop with Ernesto Bazan: applications due February 10

Something More Out of Life: Photographs by Gretchen Ferber Reception and Presentations February 18 at the Sanford School of Public Policy, West Campus, Duke University

Ernesto Bazan artist talk about his photography work in Cuba at CDS on February 17

Panel discussion "A Measure of Remorse" with video artist Hong-An Truong and Duke professors Fred Moten and Nayoung Aimee Kwon at CDS on February 18

Attention Duke undergraduates: apply to become a Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Fellow! Deadline to apply is at noon on February 19.

"Photographing in the Key of C" video interview with exhibiting artist Cedric Chatterley

Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos film, a project of CDS

"Allan Gurganus on the American South," recorded in November 2009, now available online

CDS co-sponsors 2010 Ethics Film Series on "Control and Resistance"

Opening reception for Still Point of the Turning World: Photographs by Frank Hunter on February 24 in the Allen Gallery on Duke's west campus

Special CDS course opportunity: "The Documentary Theater Project" with Mike Wiley. Register now using our on-line system.

There are over 250 audio and video documentaries on the CDS iTunes U site. Just added: the fall 2009 undergraduate projects from John Biewen's "Introduction to Audio Documentary" course

The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams featured on the websites for the New Yorker and PDN magazines

2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival passes now on sale

Registration now open for Spring/Summer 2010 continuing education courses, including institutes

The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams featured in the November 2009 podcast from Daylight magazine and on multimediamuse.org

CDS is part of a project to assist the Maasai community of Laikipia in documenting their own culture

Mike Seeger remembered

The Rough South of Larry Brown

Now available on DVD: The Rough South of Larry Brown, written and directed by Gary Hawkins

Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños/Our Stories, Our Dreams exhibition travels to Charlotte, Asheville, Chapel Hill, and Greensboro




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What's Happening @ the Center for Documentary Studies



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"Photographing in the Key of C" video interview with exhibiting artist Cedric Chatterley
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"Allan Gurganus on the American South," recorded in November 2009, now available online
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Audio of Jennette Williams artist's talk at Perkins Library
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The Today show features the Jazz Loft Project
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Jazz Loft Project radio series on WYNC
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The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams featured in the November 2009 podcast from Daylight magazine and on multimediamuse.org
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Videos from the Jazz Loft Project
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Undrabörn / Extraordinary Child: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark
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Video shorts from the 2009 video institute
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Videos from Documented: Stories from Both Sides of the Border
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Packaged, photographs by Jessica Silver
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Maasai community of Laikipia
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The Collector: Joseph Mitchell's Quotidian Quest
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"Unnatural Borders, Open Wounds: The Human Landscape of Pakistan"
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Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
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CDS on Facebook
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Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow Amanda van Scoyoc Raising Them Right: Young Motherhood in Chelsea, MA

Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow Amara Hark-Weber Speaking in Color

Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños/Our Stories, Our Dreams photographs, audio, and multimedia
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Video of CDS traveling exhibit Oh Freedom Over Me at Bay County Public Library in Panama City, Florida
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Ruth Behar lecture and slide show on "The Hopes and Worries of a Vulnerable Observer"
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Nuevo South
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Summer 2008 audio institute documentaries now available on CDS iTunes site
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Key Jazz Loft figure and legendary drummer Ron Free shares memories of his extraordinary life on the national radio program "The Story"

Listen to "Southern Slices: Summer Institute Stories from CDS" on www.prx.org
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Video and photo slide shows from Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life

Robert Pinsky on "Poetry and Documentary Expression"

Norma Cantú on "Celebrating Identity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas"

The Idea of Cuba photo gallery and podcasts

Digging Up Thelonius Monk's Southern Roots

Karen Michel audio performance: "Live? Die? Kill? Three Questions in Two Geographies"

CDS on iTunes

On-line presentations by Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows: Libby Conn | Annie Dlugokecki | Maital Guttman | Kate Joyce | Emma Raynes | Lucy Wilson



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