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Full Color DepressionCurator Bruce Jackson on Kodachrome and the FSA Photographers

In This Timeless TimeNew CDS Book on Death Row in America

On ExhibitPhoto Portraits of Female Veterans

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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 fieldwork that uses photography, film/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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FEATURED 3Interview with Bruce JacksonCurator of Full Color Depression and Author of In This Timeless Time

When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat VeteransAn Exhibit of Photos and Oral Histories

AwARDS 8CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in PhotographyDeborah Willis to Judge 2012 Competition

RADIO 8Groundwork Project Gears Up with New Website

EDUCATION 9Undergraduate Education Spring Courses Highlight Food

Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary ArtsDocumentary Fieldwork Class

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Continuing Education Fall 2011 Certificate in Documentary Arts Graduates

Featured Spring Courses and Summer Institutes

FILM 13Full Frame Documentary Film FestivalApril 12–15, 2012

BOOKS 13New and Recent Publications

PEOPLE 14Chris VailVisiting Artist

Paul HendricksonDocumentary Writing Guest Speaker

OTHER NEwS 15Benjamin Lowy on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Documenting Medicine Program Podcasts

Behind the Veil Digitization Project

FRIENDS OF CDS 15

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COVER, top to bottom: 1) Sergeant Major Andrea Farmer, U.S. Army, 2008. Photograph by Sascha Pflaeging. 2) Silvestre Tuburcio Noyola at home in San Nicholas, Guerrero, on Mexico’s Costa Chica. He was awarded Mexico’s top award for artists, the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, in 2001. Photograph by Chris Vail. 3) Thomas Andrew Barefoot. Put to death, November 30, 1984. Photograph by Bruce Jackson. 4) Host Jon Stewart talks with photojournal-ist Benjamin Lowy about his book, Iraq | Perspectives. 5) Shulman’s Market, 485 ½ N at Union Street, SW, Washington, D.C., 1942. Photograph by Louise Rosskam. 6) From Duke University Libraries’ Behind the Veil collection. Subject, photographer, and date unknown.

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Bruce Jackson wears many hats—folklorist, documentary filmmaker and photographer, writer, James Agee Professor of American Culture at SUNY–Buffalo—and his talents loom large at CDS this year. He curated the

photography exhibit Full Color Depression: First Koda-chromes from America’s Heartland, now on view in the Kreps Gallery, and this spring his and Diane Christian’s new book, In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America, will be published by CDS Books and the University of North Carolina Press. In this excerpt from an interview with CDS publishing intern Joel Mora, Jackson talks about these two projects.

JM: Let’s start with Full Color Depression. What did you think when you first saw the Kodachrome images?

BJ: I think like everybody else, I had basically thought of the 1930s in black-and-white. I knew consciously that that was absurd, but my images of that time derive from those iconic FSA black-and-white images by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange and all the others. I saw these images and it caused me to rethink the whole era. They sort of fill in spaces that I suddenly realized had not been filled in before. I see these images as startling color images in their own right, and I see how some of the photographers are literally figuring out how to see in color and realizing that when you shoot color, you can shoot differently. Before, they didn’t have the choice; now they do. So for me it was very exciting in a lot of historical ways, a lot of visual ways.

JM: Now that we know they had the option, what do you think their mental process was in picking color over black-and-white?

BJ: I think as they got used to using this new film some of them started looking for situations where color could be a critical part of what they photographed, and it’s clear that some of them were shooting for color—like Russell Lee. There are several Lee photographs in the exhibit that in black-and-white are really boring images, like the one of the wheat farm [above]. I printed that; I desaturated it and tried to see what it would look like in black-and-white.

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He was clearly thinking in color. And Jack Delano was thinking like that. There’s one Delano image in a railroad roundhouse in Chicago and there in the lower right corner is a barrel with fire. Almost everything else in the image is black with white or gray, but that spurt of fire with little red coals at the bottom changes that whole image.

Keep in mind that the film cost fifty dollars a roll for 35mm film—eighteen frames—in current dollars. So pho-tographers had to be very careful and parsimonious with the color they shot. They really gave it a lot of thought.

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INTERVIEw wITH BRUCE JACKSONCurator of Full Color Depression | Author of In This Timeless Time

Wheat farm, Walla Walla, Washington, July 1941. Photograph by Russell Lee. OPPOSITE: Bruce Jackson, Chihuahua Desert, Presidio County, Texas, 2011. Photograph by Michael Lee Jackson.

Full Color Depression: First Koda-chromes from America’s Heartland

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Beginning in 1935 the Library of Congress’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) team captured at least 175,000 black-and-white images throughout the coun-try’s heartland. In the late 1930s some of the photog-raphers began making color photos using a new film, Kodachrome; the images were rediscovered in 1978 in the Library of Congress archives. For this exhibit, Bruce Jackson selected and in some instances restored a rep-resentative group of images using files made from the original color transparencies, then printed them large-scale; the transparencies are in the FSA/Office of War Information Collection at the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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JM: There is a somberness and seriousness to the black-and-whites from that time; that’s there in the colors, too, but there seems to be more life in them; they make you feel differently. For instance, those scenes from the Vermont state fair, or the one in Washington, D.C., with a little girl outside of a store.

BJ: Oh, I love that picture. That’s by Louise Rosskam. When I take people around the show, I point to that one because it’s got a real rhythm of color. That is an image that is very bright, very alive, that would be uninteresting in black and white, I think you’re right about that. Same with those four from the Vermont state fair by Jack Delano. The one of the family with all the girls and one boy—there are five girls in pink dresses, right in the middle of them is the boy in a light turquoise shirt, a woman is holding an infant in blue, and every one of them is looking in a different direction. That picture is playful—it’s got energy in what’s going on in it even though everyone is stand-ing still—and it’s got that rhythm of color that a black-and-white image would not have. A lot of the photographers were more playful with color.

JM: The images were discovered in 1978; what made you want to curate this exhibit now?

BJ: I just found them last year. They were around in ’78 and somebody did an exhibit of them, but they haven’t been shown much. It’s only recently that they’ve been turning up in magazines. I went to the Library of Congress to look at them, and I found that there were these huge files. I downloaded some, and they were beautiful. I worked on them and printed them on 24 x 30 sheets. Nobody I knew, knew about them. So I thought, Why not do an exhibit of them?

JM: What was the quality of the film like, and what was the processing like? Was there a lot of cleanup work?

BJ: I didn’t use the film. This whole exhibit is done digitally. I made my prints from very high-res scans—tiff files made available by the Library of Congress. I worked on them in Photoshop and Lightroom. Some of them I just had to tweak the color a little bit. Some of them had a lot of dirt on them. The one of the wheat farm, if you open up that file and look at it large, you’ll see lots and lots of dust. I think I took out about a thousand flecks of dust one by one. Others of them I didn’t have to do anything to—they were perfectly exposed, perfectly printed; they were clean.

JM: That seems like a big responsibility, to adjust images that come from some of the greatest photographers of our time.

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clean them up the way any lab would do for a photographer. Remember, none of these are pictures that these guys and women would’ve printed themselves. They couldn’t print color then, they had to go to [Kodak]. I tried to feel like somebody working in a professional lab—to be consistent with what I thought their image was but to also let it look as good as it could.

There’s a photograph of a pile of rusted, junked cars by Russell Lee that’s almost all dark blue and browns. That’s a photograph that was very hard to print only because I had to resist the temptation to brighten up the colors—because what that photograph is about is the muted quality of the image. One of the images I spent a lot of time on, though, was a [Andreas] Feininger photo of a copper mine. In the very lower left corner is a town, but there’s such a range of light in it and such a mass of detail—a church, some other build-ings—that it got kind of muddy. I think if Feininger had printed it he would’ve wanted that town, because it really sets off the whole rest of the image. So I tried to bring the town out with-out changing the balance of the rest of the image.

JM: An interesting thing about the FSA, as you say in the cat-alog, is that “the government treated artists as if they were real workers.”BJ: Artists were treated as if they were plumbers or electri-cians—people who had a worthwhile craft that the public could make use of. [The project] gave these photographers jobs. It gave them enough money to shoot in places that they would otherwise not get to shoot, and it provided a record that we own. You could pay twenty-thousand dollars or more for a Walker Evans print made from one of his private nega-tives, but you can get an archival quality print from the Library of Congress for seventy-five bucks, because these are public photographs. What I’m saying is, these are your pictures.

JM: Let’s move on to In This Timeless Time. Since we’ve talk-ed about color versus black-and-white, why did you choose to print the book in duotone, even though some of the images were shot in color?

BJ: Let me tell you how it came about. Diane Christian, my wife, and I went [to Texas] to do a film and a book about life on Death Row. I wasn’t down there to do still photographs. The film came out in ’79, a book in ’80, both called Death Row. Later I looked at my negatives and realized I had a lot of interesting photographs, too. The best of them were black-and-white. Some were color, but not enough to justify printing [In This Timeless Time] in color—it costs a great deal more, and if you’re going to do some pages in color you have to do

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else. That’s the point. Monsters don’t look like monsters, and most of them weren’t monsters anyway. A lot of prisoners say the walls, the wire doesn’t exist to keep us in but to keep you out. Who lives there? Who are these people? This is a world most people never see, and it is populated with people who look like us.

JM: But what about that conflict that the viewer has? For example, other than the fact that they’re on Death Row, the photo of Ronald “Candyman” O’Bryan playing dominoes with Raymond Riles seems so nice and normal. But then you read the caption and find out O’Bryan murdered his son with cya-nide-laced Halloween candy. It’s weird.

BJ: It is weird. It is, but deal with it. I think that’s one of things the book should do. I’m not your babysitter. Here’s a piece of the world, here’s what it looks like, here are the conflicts inher-ent in it. If the reader or looker finds it complicating and unset-tling, that’s because it is complicated and unsettling. The fact that they did it, that’s on them; this is on us.

JM: In the book you talk about the methodology of the proj-ect, and there are even some photos of you at work talking to the prisoners. When you see those photos from 1979, what do you remember of that time?

BJ: I often tell my students, the fact that you remember something doesn’t mean that it happened, it means only that you remember it. I remember being there. I remember the people I was talking to vividly. The photographs help me do that. This goes back to the beginning of our conversation. Documentary photographs are a piece of externalized me-mory. Just as those FSA photos are part of our national exter-nalized memory, these Death Row photographs are part of my externalized memory.

It’s great fun for me to have these two projects coming about at the same time—being able to work on those images from photographers whose work I loved from the past and bring it into the present, and then to bring that work that Diane Christian and I did in 1979 into the present as well. Faulkner’s got that line, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

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large sections in color, which would then control the organiza-tion. So we decided to do it in duotone, and I think one or two of the images I converted to grayscale from color.

JM: Before your work on this particular Texas Death Row you had opportunities to shoot others but declined. What was it about that one, that you finally felt you should shoot there?

BJ: I had done a lot of work in prisons, a lot of books about prisons. But I declined those opportunities because I thought it was voyeuristic, and I didn’t have a project there. However, I did in 1978 see this Death Row, and I realized it was not just one more part of prison. It’s totally different in this regard—this is what the title of the book refers to—you ask anyone who’s been in prison where they’ve been, they say “I was doing time.” In Death Row nobody is doing time. Time doesn’t count. Time is not your sentence. Your sentence is to be killed. You’re held until they decide whether or not they can do it. Death Row is a limbo. So the whole psychology of it, the feeling of it, is very different.

In the summer of ’78, my wife and I were at a conference and I mentioned this to Carey McWilliams, who was editor of The Nation magazine. I said, “Somebody should do a film about this,” and he said, “You should,” and I said, “I don’t do films.” He said, “No, you have to. You have the access.” He said it is like there was an ethical responsibility—I could do it, hardly anybody else could do it, and therefore I should do it. So Diane and I did it. Our interest continued over the years, and this new book in a way connects to that earlier work, but it connects it through time.

JM: The photos are beautiful, but some of the subjects have done really horrendous things. You still seem to find a way to make them all individuals.

BJ: That is exactly what those photos are about. A lot of peo-ple look at those photos and say, but they look like anybody

In This Timeless TimeLiving & Dying on Death Row in America

In the series Documentary Arts and Culture Published by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies

In This Timeless Time, about life on a Death Row in Tex-as, features photographs by Bruce Jackson and text by Jackson and Diane Christian. “It is also about all the other Death Rows, which across time and in various places differ in marginal ways but which, at their core, are not significantly different from one another,” as Jackson and Christian write in their preface. The book is made up of three parts: photos taken by Jackson in 1979, commentary written in 2010, and the story of how Jackson and Christian got access to a place from which outsiders are usually excluded. Jackson and Christian are both Distinguished Professors of English at SUNY–Buffalo.

256 pages | 113 duotone photographs$35.00, hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8078-3539-5Includes a DVD of the documentary Death RowAvailable in April 2012 in bookstores or by ordering from UNC Press

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Photographs by Bruce Jackson. OPPOSITE: Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941. Photograph by Jack Delano.

Kerry Max Cook. Exonerated, 1997. Kerry spent twenty-one years on the Row. He had three trials and was convicted and given the death penalty at every one. . . . After the third death sentence was thrown out . . . [h]e pled guilty without admitting guilt . . . and was set free. A few months later, the Inno-cence Project was able to run DNA tests on the physical evidence. The test showed Kerry could not have been the villain. . . . “Freedom came,” he wrote to us in 2010, “but the shadow of bars follow me.”

Text and photo from In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America, by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian

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Q&A WITH LAURA BROWDERHow did you and the book’s photographer, Sascha Pflaeging, come up with the idea for this project? My book Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America had just come out when Sascha and I started this project. One of the threads that runs through that book is the issue of women in combat, a hot one since Revolutionary War times. Women are still barred from many combat roles. Yet here we were in the middle of two wars in which women were serving in unprecedented numbers, and in positions of great danger—as convoy gunners, explosives-sniffing dog handlers, military police. Sascha and I were discussing the issue of women in the war, and we decided to interview and photograph women combat veterans.

How do these portraits present a new image of women in war? War photography has traditionally focused on men as heroes and aggressors, and on women and children as victims. We thought that photographs of women who are mothers and wounded soldiers could have the power to unsettle our fixed ideas about Americans at war, and that their narratives could add dimension to the often flawed or fragmentary representa-tions of women soldiers in popular culture: as novelties, but not as real soldiers.

How did you choose which women to interview? It was very important to us that we include a diverse range of women in the book—not only women from every branch of

The recent launch of the Veterans Oral History Project in North Carolina brings When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans to CDS. The exhibit includes a series of forty large-scale (one is 50 in. x 40 in.;

others are 30 in. x 40 in.) color photographic portraits and accompanying oral histories of female soldiers who served in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The exhibit, and a book of the same name (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), is a collaboration between photographer Sascha Pflaeging and author Laura Browder, Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor in American Studies at the University of Richmond. In taking the photos, Pflaeging was interested in “document-ing these women visually while the situation is still pres-ent, their feelings and emotions still raw and very real.” The resulting portraits, and accompanying text, convey stories that are by turns moving, comic, heartbreaking, and thought-provoking.

When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans was made possible by generous grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the College of Humanities and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University. The exhibition was organized by the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, where it premiered in 2008. The exhibition tour is administered by the Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Common-wealth University, with additional support from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

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the military, commissioned officers and enlisted women, but women who ranged in age from teenagers to grand-mothers, and women who reflected the ethnic and racial diversity of the armed services. If we had ever thought of the military as a monolithic institution, that belief was dispelled as soon as we sat down for our first batch of interviews.

What struck you most about these women as a group? I expected that the women I interviewed would see them-selves as marginal within the military—because that’s how female soldiers are generally portrayed in the media. Nothing could have been further from the truth: being in the military was absolutely central to their identities. I was amazed at their ability to survive and keep going in circumstances that were very difficult, and often by their ability to balance roles that many of us think of as being very different—as mothers and as warriors.

As a whole, how did these women feel their experi-ence in the military was different because they were female? Some talked about their service in all-female units, and others reflected on how they felt they were more com-passionate than their male counterparts. Some talked about soldier-on-soldier rape or the need for better gynecological services on their bases—and a few women were offended by the question and said that their gen-der had nothing to do with their military service. Many of them talked about how they had to prove themselves as women in the military—but they also talked about how the military gave them the opportunity to live the kind of inde-pendent, adventurous lives that they had always wanted.

How did the mothers describe their experiences being away from their families while serving in the military? There were heartbreaking stories: Army Staff Sergeant Connica McFadden had to deploy with her husband when their baby was six months old and still breastfeed-ing. When they returned, their daughter didn’t recognize them and cried when she was left alone with them. But there were also many women who talked about how their families did not understand their desire to deploy and the way that conflicted with motherhood—as Marine Sergeant Jocelyn Proano told me, although she had dreaded being deployed because she wanted to stay at home with her one-year-old daughter, her feelings changed once she got her orders: “The mommy mentality left me as soon as we got on that bus. All of a sudden, the Marine hit me and I’m like, all right we’ve got combat training. I’m thinking we’re going to go up there, and we’re going to start shooting.”

From “A Conversation with Laura Browder,” author of When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

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TOP TO BOTTOM: Staff Sergeant Shawntel Lotson, U.S. Army, 2008; Colonel Jenny Holbert, U.S. Marine Corps (ret.), 2008; Staff Sergeant Connica McFadden, U.S. Army, 2008; Lance Corporal Layla Martinez, U.S. Marine Corps, 2008. OPPOSITE: Captain Gabriela Ordonez-Mackey, U.S. Army, 2008. Photographs by Sascha Pflaeging.

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judged the second biennial competition (2004). The judges for the next three competitions were photographers Robert Frank (2006), Mary Ellen Mark (2008), and William Eggleston (2010).

Submissions will be accepted from June 15 through Sep-tember 15, 2012.

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RADIOGroundwork Project Readies for National Broadcast

Supported by a $140,000 media grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Groundwork, a Center for Documentary Studies documentary radio

and multimedia project, is gearing up to air this spring with a series of documentary radio features, followed by a one-hour documentary radio special this summer. The project also includes a blog and multimedia, interactive website that invites stories and media content from the audience.

The aim of Groundwork is to examine the current state of American democracy in six diverse places across the United States—how people solve problems, make decisions, and get things done at the local level when wrestling with issues that also resonate on a national level, like immigration, the environment, energy, and civil rights, among others. “The project essentially asks, at a time when American democracy seems hopelessly polarized and gridlocked at the national level, what does it look like, and sound like, when the people who are trying to work things out are neighbors,” says John Biewen, audio director at CDS and Groundwork producer.

“Our six stories come at that question in different ways, and we’ve made no effort to choose stories that illustrate one overarching theme. We’re not claiming, for instance, that everybody in Congress is an awful cretin while the good folk in the rest of the country are salt-of-the-earth examplars of pure democracy. There’ll be inspiring, encouraging moments in these pieces and also dispiriting moments. People will sometimes argue in good faith and hear one another and show willingness to compromise, and sometimes they won’t. Added together, though, we hope the stories will illuminate the give-and-take of this country’s decision-making process-es, and remind us of their importance.”

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CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in PhotographyDeborah Willis to Judge 2012 Competition

The Center for Documentary Studies and the Hon-ickman Foundation are pleased to announce that Deborah Willis, celebrated photo historian, curator,

and photographer, will judge the 2012 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition. “This is a unique op-portunity to observe and create new narratives,” says Willis. “There is an absence of new voices in photography books; all of us need this prize to expand our experiences in looking and understanding.”

Willis, a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, has received an Infinity Award in Writing from the International Center for Photography and was recently named among the “100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photography magazine. She is chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

She has been the curator of photographs at the Schom-burg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library and the exhibitions curator at the Center for African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution.

Exhibitions of Willis’s photographs include Progeny, A Sense of Place, Regarding Beauty, Embracing Eatonville, and Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contempo-rary African American Artists. She is the author of Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot,” Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs, The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois and the Photographs from the Paris Exposition, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photog-raphers, Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photogra-phy, and VanDerZee, among others.

Judges for the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photog-raphy are among the most significant and innovative artists, curators, and writers in contemporary photography. Photogra-pher and writer Robert Adams was the prize’s inaugural judge in 2002. Maria Morris Hambourg, founding curator of the De-

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Spring Courses Highlight FoodSome seminal books have contributed to this decade’s groundswell of interest in all things food—from Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation to Michael Pollan’s now-clas-sics, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. So it seems fitting that another book, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, helped initiate a groundbreaking new food-related class at Duke. Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Why, What, and How We Eat is Duke’s first-ever “University Course,” drawing students and faculty from the entire university, across all the various schools, in-stitutes, and disciplines. The class was convened by Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton and is co-led by Charlie Thompson, director of undergraduate studies at CDS, and Kathy Rudy, associate professor of women’s studies; it features a different speaker and respondent every week, followed by small-group discussions at a communal meal. Topics include attitudes about food in America, the local food movement, and food advertising, among many others.

Eating Animals, a review of the food industry, was the 2011 summer reading book for incoming freshmen at UNC and Duke. It struck such a chord with students that it piqued the interest of Duke administrators, including Dean Patton. “I got a call from Lee Baker [Duke’s Dean of Aca-demic Affairs at Trinity College], asking me to put together an outline for an introductory food course,” says Thomp-son, who has been involved with food issues and organiza-tions since the late ’70s, including Triangle University Food Studies, a student and faculty group formed in 2010.

For Thompson, who hopes that the course will lead to a concentration in food studies at Duke, it’s all about upsetting the heirloom-apple cart. “My goal is to take this groundswell of interest and complicate it, to complicate the

narrative of locavorism and organics,” he says. “It has to ask serious questions about justice issues, about who has access. For instance, why are there people from farms in Mexico working on farms in the U.S.? There’s a lot to learn in examining questions like that—from the politics of oil to immigration policy to the history of slavery in this country. It’s complicated; it’s about everything.”

A casual remark by CDS director Tom Rankin sparked the idea for another food-oriented class, Our Culinary Cultures, taught at CDS by longtime food journalist Kelly Alexander. She had recently moved to Chapel Hill from New York City when a colleague who’d interviewed Rankin passed along his offhand comment that “he had a bunch of students taking up food-related projects and that it was the damnedest thing.” That remark, wrote Alexander in an e-mail, “spoke to me in a very real and deep way. I had done a lot of things I’d wanted to do as a food writer—trav-eling the world, meeting some of my idols like Julia Child and Marcella Hazan, and I’d won awards for my work. But I was in a different place for the first time, and my life had changed. And although I wondered how good I’d be at it, I never doubted whether or not I’d be able to share anything of value with Duke students who were interested in food and the subjects that surround it. Because, of course, when you write about food you’re not really writing about food—you’re writing about class and race and religion and, most of all, culture.

“I met with Tom Rankin and [CDS director of undergradu-ate studies] Charlie Thompson about the kind of food-writing class I could teach. I came in with two basic ‘musts’: I must have a place where I can cook with the students, because it’s cruel and unusual punishment to expect any-one to think about food for any given period of time without eating it; and I wanted to run the class like a real writers’ workshop, as collaboratively as possible. We quickly came up with a class that involved fieldwork and ethnographic documentation, and that was also, and most importantly, fun. Some students are surprised to discover that the class is actually quite a lot of work; but I promise them, and I think I’m good to my word, that it’s going to be a really fun journey, and that they will surprise themselves. And they almost always do, which is my great joy.”

Based on student evaluations, Alexander has been ranked among the top 5 percent of Duke undergraduate instructors. To read her remarks in their entirety, go to:

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Continuing EducationFall 2011 Certificate in Documentary ArtsThroughout 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, film and video, audio, multimedia, and writing projects that often move out into the world in the form of exhibits, installations, screen-ings, websites, and more.

Nine students completed projects in this past fall’s Final Seminar, taught by filmmaker Randolph Benson. In Decem-ber they presented their work to the public.

Angela Alford | Granny’s Got Game [Video]Angela Alford is a first-time filmmaker, a former software engineer, and a basketball player. Angela played for USA Basketball and for Vanderbilt University, where she earned her degree in electrical engineering and computer science. Granny’s Got Game follows a group of septuagenarian wom-en, the Fabulous Seventies, who don’t let age and ailments stop them from doing what they love—playing basketball.

William Bailey | Picturing Fletcher’s [Photography] William Bailey was born in New Jersey, and has lived in Virginia, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he’s a lawyer. When spring comes, he fishes the shad run at Fletcher’s, an old fishing camp on the Potomac. Fletcher’s has been meeting the steady demand for bait, tackle, and boats over the last hun-dred years, but it’s also a place for releasing the pressures of city life for those in the know.

Bill Erwin | Two Expats: Leaving for Love, Changing for Life [Audio]Bill Erwin’s first audio project was a sound yearbook of his senior year at C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, Louisi-ana, recorded in 1964–65. He is Ryan Erwin’s father and Courtney-Anne Erwin’s uncle; his project documents Ryan and Courtney-Anne, two American expats who left the U.S. for an overseas girlfriend and boyfriend, respectively, and the lessons they’ve learned about how to adapt without losing one’s roots.

Anatomy of a Class: Documentary FieldworkHow did the inaugural class of Duke’s first MFA program negotiate its first semester? Here, Alex Harris, a founder of CDS who has been teaching documentary photography and writing at Duke

since 1975, gives us his take on a fundamental class experi-ence shared by all fifteen students last fall.

My job was to create a fieldwork seminar for the inaugural class of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts. The seminar is an opportunity for students to hit the ground running in the program, to create a new body of documentary work, in a sense to define what they mean by documentary work through their own artistic practice. But how to achieve that goal in a seminar setting with such a diverse group of students, each with a different set of technical and artistic skills, with different life experiences, and each with a particu-lar and distinctive body of work they planned to pursue?

I designed a class with a simple premise: that students would learn primarily from doing their own work, but also from one another and from me. It would be our job—togeth-er—to create an environment where experimentation and risk-taking were encouraged. Each student met with me indi-vidually every other week to discuss their projects, and every third week presented these projects to the class for critique. Very quickly we developed an atmosphere of collaboration in the seminar as students became more and more engaged not only in their own projects but also in their classmates’ emerging work.

This new work showed where students were heading, but the students were asked to look back as well. Once a semester each member of the seminar presented his or her influences: the films, photographs, artists, books, music, and experiences that have most influenced their own work. We created a blog, Influences, as a record of those presenta-tions, a syllabus of inspiration for the rest of us, and a place where students can update their entries as they find another artist or body of work that is important to them. We hope the blog is a site that viewers will want to come back to.

For any documentary artist, it is important to have an audience in mind while working on a project, and a real-world deadline—the end of the fall semester in our case—to show a work-in-progress in the best format possible. We arranged a public presentation in front of an audience that was respond-ing to these projects for the first time, in many cases, and in

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ABOVE: Kodak. Pigment print from color negative, 18” x 18”, 2011. Photograph by Lisa McCarty. RIGHT: Courtney-Anne Erwin and Ryan Erwin, shown here on a canal tour in Amsterdam, were the subjects of Bill Erwin’s final project about expats learning what it takes to become Europeans without losing their American roots. Photograph by Bill Erwin.

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ABOVE, top: Video still of the Fabulous Seventies, the septuagenarian women’s basketball team featured in Angela Alford’s documentary Granny’s Got Game. ABOVE, bottom: Betty & Bob Stacke, Single Bed, 2010. Photograph by Sarah Stacke. DOCUM

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Nina Paukovic was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. She lives in France, where she works as an administra-tive assistant at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Her photos focus on flea markets as places of marginal/alternative economic activity, which allows them to become alternative spaces for the reinterpretation of sociocultural meanings by cultural minorities—a complex, dynamic, and often humorous interplay.

Sarah Stacke | Betty and Bob: Scenes from a Kitchen Table [Multimedia]Sarah Stacke is a professional photographer based in Durham, North Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York. In May, Stacke will graduate from Duke with a master’s in Liberal Studies with a focus in African and African American Stud-ies. This intimate portrayal of her grandparents uncovers Betty and Bob’s legendary World War II love story and explores their sixty-four years of marriage.

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FEATURED COURSEMount a Real Documentary Photography ExhibitApril 7–April 28, 2012

With instructors Joy Salyers and Liz Lindsey, students in this new class will meet documentary photographer Cedric Chatterley, examine his photo collection and help conduct the final edit for an exhibit of his work, write the exhibit text, and help mount the exhibit, learning about printing along the way. This class project will culminate with an opening at the Durham County Library on April 29. “It’s fun to raise the curtain on the practical, hands-on tasks of creating and mounting an exhibit,” says Lindsey. “Regard-less of your chosen media, it’s hard but thrilling work to tell a good story.” North Carolina at Work: Cedric Chatterley’s Portraits and Landscapes of Traditional Labor will feature images of working North Carolinians, from apple pickers to oyster harvesters to preachers and cooks, and will be the first photo exhibit drawn from an archive of some thirty-thousand images, Chatterley’s among them, held jointly by the North Carolina Folklife Institute (NCFI) and the North

Lauren Feiring | Oscillare [Film & Audio]Lauren Feiring was born and raised in the Inland Empire, a network of commuter towns scarring the valleys between Los Angeles and the desert. After college, she moved to New York City, and ten thousand walks over the Williams-burg Bridge later, to Durham, North Carolina. Oscillare, shot on Super 8 film, follows Alyson Bowles, who has been in the process of transitioning from male to female for the last fifteen years in the Inland Empire city of San Bernardino.

Marc Maximov | Grandpa Gives You the Bird [Video]Marc Maximov took his first class at CDS in 2006, where a course on audio documentary got him started as a sound designer for local theater companies; he is also a fre-quent contributor to the Independent Weekly. Maximov’s video documents his grandfather Marshall Salzman, who has been folding and handing out origami birds—twenty-thousand of them by a conservative estimate—for years, a source of joyful interaction for the retired architect.

Jordan Montgomery | Durham Loupe: Taking Another Look [Photography]Jordan Montgomery recently relocated from Seattle, Washington, to Durham, North Carolina. On his first visit downtown, he found himself fascinated with the cityscape—particularly the “Durham Loop,” the heart of the downtown area—and was compelled to document and share what he had witnessed of its revitalization, particu-larly as the city gains attention as a thriving urban environ-ment. Montgomery has a BFA from the University of North Carolina–Greensboro.

Jennifer Nolan | Schizo Spirit [Audio]Jennifer Nolan is a research fellow at the Center for Child and Family Policy at the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University. Her research interests focus on non-pharmacological approaches for improved functioning and quality of life for people living with severe mental illness, particularly schizophrenia. Her project is a first-person per-spective on living with schizophrenia and finding meaning, a sense of purpose, and renewed identity.

New Spring Courses

DLSR Video: New Tools for Filmmaking & MediaAlex Maness | Beginning/IntermediateFebruary 13–April 2

How to Write a Winning Documentary Proposal Judith Van Wyk | All levels March 3

Successful Collaboration with NGOs WorkshopMisha Friedman | Intermediate/Advanced March 3–4

Using Your Voice to Tell StoriesKatie Davis | All LevelsApril 1

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Summer intensive institutes and weekend courses offer both local students and those who live in other areas the oppor-tunity to participate in the CDS documentary arts program. Classes fill quickly; register now to guarantee your spot.

Portraits and Dreams: Literacy Through Photography

Katie Hyde | All Levels | May 2–3 and August 3–4

Documenting Medicine: A Day in the Life of a Patient

Dr. John Moses, Liisa Ogburn, Erica Rothman, Elena Rue

Beginning | May 3–6

Advanced Documentary Photography: Vision and Craft

Christopher Sims | Intermediate/Advanced | May 10–13

Documentary Video Institute

Randolph Benson, Jim Haverkamp, Simone Keith, Erika Simon,

Carol Thomson, Nicole Triche

All Levels | June 9–16

Intensive Introduction to Documentary Studies

Michelle Lanier | All Levels | June 24–29

Hearing Is Believing I: Audio Documentary Institute

John Biewen | All Levels | July 15–21

Digging In: An Audio Retreat with Big Shed

Shea Shackelford, Jesse Dukes, Jennifer Deer

Intermediate/Advanced | July 29–August 4

Master Class: Nonfiction Writing

Duncan Murrell and Roger Hodge | Advanced | July 30–August 4

Hearing Is Believing II: Making It Sing

John Biewen | Intermediate/Advanced | August 6–11

Read about and register for spring courses and summer institutes:

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Carolina Arts Council. The archive is managed by NCFI, which has documented and preserved traditional arts and cultures in the state for almost forty years.

NCFI receives support from the National Endowment of the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the North Carolina Humanities Council, the Visual Resources Association Foun-dation, and others. North Carolina at Work and this original collaboration between NCFI and the Center for Documentary Studies is supported by a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.

Liz Lindsey is resident curator for the North Carolina at Work exhibit. An independent folklorist, she has worked for more than a decade with nonprofit organizations, established art-ists, professors, and students who wish to tell stories through exhibits of various media. Lindsey has directed a nonprofit ar-tisans gallery, done archival work for the North Carolina Arts Council and Southern Folklife Collection, and coordinated exhibitions at CDS.

Joy Salyers is a folklorist, writer, and anti-racism educator whose specialties include using oral history, experiential learning, and creativity to bridge community divisions, develop identity, and combat prejudice. She is the secretary of the North Carolina Folklore Society and interim director of the North Carolina Folklife Institute.

Cedric N. Chatterley received an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989, and in 2010 he was awarded a Bush Artist Fellowship in visual arts. His work has been funded by the North Carolina Arts Council, the North Carolina Folklife Institute, and the North Carolina Humanities Council, among others. There will be an opening reception for North Carolina at Work on April 29, 2012, at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Durham County Public Library, 300 N. Roxboro St., Durham, North Carolina. The exhibit will run through June 29.

Brothers Ray and Walter Davenport, from Tyrrell County, have fished the Albemarle Sound for more than fifty years. Cedric N. Chatterley photographed them in 2007 for the North Carolina Folklife Institute and North Carolina Arts Council when the brothers received the North Carolina Heritage Award, the state’s highest honor for bearers of traditional culture. Photograph by Cedric N. Chatterley.

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Full Frame Documentary Film FestivalApril 12–15, 2012Full Frame keeps breaking its own records, not surprising for an event named one of the “Top 50 Film Festivals in the World” by indieWire, with a programming director—Sadie Tillery—named one of the “Most Powerful People in Documentary” by influential journalist Tom Roston. The 2011 festival marked another record year of atten-dance—more than 29,000 patrons—with a record thirty-four sold-out events over the course of the annual four-day event in historic downtown Durham, North Carolina. The 2012 festival, April 12–15, will mark Full Frame’s fifteenth anniversary.

Dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of nonfiction cinema, Full Frame draws filmmakers and film lovers from around the world for a morning to midnight array of films as well as discussions and panels; events are all within a four-block radius. The intimate setting fosters community and conversation between filmmakers, film professionals, and the public.

Passes may still be available through the festival website. Passholders enjoy special benefits, including the opportunity to buy tickets to their preferred screenings before the general public. Schedules and film descrip-tions will be online and in print the third week of March. Tickets to specific films or events go on sale April 2.

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is a program of the Center for Documentary Studies and receives sup-port from corporate sponsors, private foundations, and individual donors whose generosity provides the founda-tion that makes the event possible. The presenting spon-sor of the festival is Duke University.

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BOOKSNew and Recent Publications CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies are works of creative exploration by writers and photogra-phers who convey new ways of seeing and understand-ing human experience in all its diversity—books that tell stories, challenge our assumptions, awaken our social conscience, and connect life, learning, and art.

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Chris VailVisiting Artist

Chris Vail, a CDS visiting artist and longtime documentary and news photographer, gave a talk at Duke in December on his ongoing project to document the cultural regions of Mex-ico as defined by various forms of son, a genre of traditional Mexican music. This work began in 2003 while on assign-ment for the Los Angeles Times; in the succeeding years, he

spent many months and logged thousands of miles speaking with musicians and photographing rural Mexico in the context of its music. Vail is working on a related pilot project as part of a residency at CDS; Rhythms of Change: North Carolina’s Música Latina, focuses on music as a window into the Latino migration to North Carolina. The Mary Duke Biddle Founda-tion provided the initial funding; additional funding is being sought to continue and build on the project.

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Paul HendricksonDocumentary Writing Guest Speaker

In November writer Paul Hendrickson came to CDS as part of the Documentary Writing Speaker Series to give a presenta-tion on his latest book, the acclaimed Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961, a recon-sideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway. Other writers in the fall speaker series included Jeff Sharlet, Siddhartha Deb, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, all of whom, says CDS writer in residence Duncan Murrell, “come at this kind of writing in different ways, which helps us continue to underline the fact that CDS is a destination for great writers and great instruction in writing.”

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TOP: Couple dances to the group Los Matias at a farmworkers’ festival in Newton Grove, North Carolina, in September 2011. BOTTOM: Silvestre Tuburcio Noyola at home in San Nicholas, Guerrero, on Mexico’s Costa Chica. He was awarded Mexico’s top award for artists, the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 2001. Photographs by Chris Vail.

Author Paul Hendrickson at CDS as part of the Documentary Writing Speaker Series. Photograph by Joel Mora.

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Ben Lowy on The Daily Show with Jon StewartPhotographer Benjamin Lowy was the guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday, December 5, to discuss his bestselling book, Iraq | Perspectives, published in fall 2011 by Duke University Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies following Lowy’s selection as the winner of the 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.

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Documenting Medicine PodcastsThe Documenting Medicine program pairs Duke physician residents and fellows with documentarians at CDS to pro-duce work exploring medical stories. Recent podcasts from the Documenting Medicine Speaker Series are available and include writer Sam Stephenson on “W. Eugene Smith’s Caregiving Photo Essays” and “Can Photography Make You a Better Doctor?” by Duke pediatrician and photographer John Moses, among others.

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Behind the Veil Digitization ProjectOne hundred oral history recordings of African American life in the Jim Crow South—from the Center for Documenta-ry Studies’ Behind the Veil project—have been digitized and are now available on the Duke University Libraries website

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 Docu-mentary Studies” at Friends of CDS, 1317 W. Pet-tigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705

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

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and iTunesU. This digital collection captures the vivid personalities, poignant personal stories, and behind-the-scenes decision making that bring to life the African American experience in the South dur-ing the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. In a recent followup story, Robert Korstad, a Duke history professor who helped edit the project, and Leslie Brown, an associate professor of history at Williams College who was involved in the original Behind the Veil project, were interviewed on NPR.

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TOP: Host Jon Stewart sharing photographs from photojournalist Benjamin Lowy’s book, Iraq | Perspectives, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. BOTTOM: From Duke University Libraries’ Behind the Veil collection. Subject, photographer, and date unknown.

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February 1, 7 p.m.Full Frame Winter SeriesA special screening of Project Nim by the Full Frame Documentary Film FestivalCarolina Theatre, Durham, NC

February 1–March 1John Hope Franklin StudentDocumentary AwardsAccepting applications for undergradu-ate summer research awardsCenter for Documentary Studies

February 6Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows ProgramApplication deadline for fall 2012Center for Documentary Studies

February 6When Janey Comes Marching HomeAn exhibition featuring photographic portraits and oral histories of female Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, through April 21Center for Documentary Studies

February 28Shared TablesA Triangle-area symposium on local and global sustainable food systemsUNC–Chapel Hill

February 29Shared TablesA Triangle-area symposium on local and global sustainable food systemsDuke University

March 21, 7 p.m.Film ScreeeningRoscoe Holcomb: From Daisy, Kentucky, by documentary filmmaker and traditional music expert John Cohen, explores the life of Holcomb, a banjo player and coal miner. Center for Documentary Studies

April–MayGroundwork: Democracy Close to HomeDebut of CDS radio documentary on American democracy in action at the local levelgroundworkproject.org

April 12–15Full Frame Documentary Film FestivalScreenings of 100 films with directors, discussions, panels, and partiesCarolina Theatre and other venues, downtown Durham, NC

April 16In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in AmericaNewest book, by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, in the Documentary Arts and Culture series published by CDS Books and the University of North Carolina Pressdocumentarystudies.duke.edu > books

April 19, 6–9 p.m.Artist’s Talk and Book SigningBruce Jackson talks about the exhibit Full Color Depression and signs copies of the show’s catalog and the book In This Timeless TimeCenter for Documentary Studies

April 29, 3 p.m.Picnic and Certificate CeremonyPicnic for graduating Certificate in Documentary Studies studentsCenter for Documentary Studies

April 29, 3 p.m.Opening ReceptionNorth Carolina at Work, a collection of Cedric Chatterley’s photographs organized by students in the continu-ing education course Mount a Real Documentary Photography Exhibit, through June 29Durham County Public Library

April 30Photographs by Hugh MangumAn exhibition curated by Sarah Stacke of work by a turn-of-the-last-century Durham portrait photographer, through October 20Center for Documentary Studies

May 3–6Documenting Medicine: A Day inthe Life of a PatientNew intensive course for beginning stu-dents interested in using photography and audio to tell the story of a person with a serious medical conditionCenter for Documentary Studies

May 7Undergraduate Student ExhibitionStudents completing the Certificate in Documentary Studies share their final projects, through September 8Center for Documentary Studies

May 18, 6 p.m.Certificate in Documentary ArtsGraduating students present final projectsNasher Museum of Art

June 15–September 15CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography CompetitionAccepting submissions; Deborah Willis is the sixth biennial judge.firstbookprizephoto.com

June 21Print AuctionA public auction of the prints from the exhibit Full Color DepressionCenter for Documentary Studies

July 30–August 4Master Class: Nonfiction WritingNew summer institute for advanced writers of narrative nonfictionCenter for Documentary Studies

August 6Coney Island 40 Years: Photographs by Harvey SteinThis exhibition of images spanning the years 1970–2010 is a meditation on time, history, persistence, and longev-ity, through October 27Center for Documentary Studies

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