Document
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a Publication of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
919-660-3663 | Fax: 919-681-7600 | docstudies@duke.edu | documentarystudies.duke.edu Director: Wesley Hogan Associate Director for Programs and Development: Lynn McKnight Publishing Director: Alexa Dilworth Art Director: Bonnie Campbell Communications Coordinator and Document Editor: Elizabeth Phillips Communications Intern: Christopher James 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. All photographs appearing in Document® are copyright by the artist. | Document® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
CONTENTS FEATURED 3 Interview with New CDS Director Wesley Hogan
BOOKS & EXHIBITS 5 Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene Photographs by 2012 First Book Prize in Photography Winner Gerard H. Gaskin Tiksi Photographs from Siberia’s Arctic Coast by Evgenia Arbugaeva One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia AWARDS 9 Winners of CDS’s Inaugural Documentary Essay Prize and Relaunched Lange-Taylor Prize
FALL 2013
EDUCATION 11 Undergraduate Education 2013 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Award Winners
MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Introducing the Incoming Class of 2015 Continuing Education Spring 2013 Certificate in Documentary Arts Graduates New Fall Classes
OTHER NEWS 15 New YouTube Channel CDS Undergrad Presents Documentary Research FRIENDS OF CDS 15
cover : Tanya being Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Photograph by Evgenia Arbugaeva, from the Tiksi series. above: Still from Taking Root, a film by 2013 Documentary Video Institute students Morgan Capps and Heather Stewart Harvey. opposite: Wesley Hogan next to CDS’s community
garden. Photograph by Christopher Sims.
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