Online exhibits and digital samples from physical exhibits displayed in exhibit spaces of Duke University Libraries.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:00:31 -0400en-USlibrary-digital-projects@duke.eduDukeWebhttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.htmlCopyright (c) 2008 Duke University Libraries (http://library.duke.edu/about/copyright.html)library-digital-projects@duke.edu Pivotal Books/Personal Reflections is an exhibit that explores the personal nature of books and the relationships that exist between reader and written word. There is a chemistry that can only exist in the private moment of reading; the images are fully formed within the readers mind and the exchange between the writer and reader is intimate and isolated and at times, personal. It doesn't matter whether the book is scholarly or children's literature; whether the reader is a professor or a mechanic; this potential relationship can exist for any person, regardless of race, social class, economic class, religion, mental ability or sexual preference; the only thing that matters is the desire for this relationship, and the ability to read (or be read to).http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/pivotal-books/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/pivotal-books/Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:00:00 -0400A Maine resident and lifelong political activist, Olive Pierce's photographs reflect the spirit of community. This retrospective of black and white gelatin silver prints includes images that document life in Cambridge, Massachusetts as well as Maine fishing communities. Images of Iraqi citizens under US economic sanctions in 1999 and photographs of Maine citizens demonstrating for and against the war in 2003, make the connection between the local and global community.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/olivepierce/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/olivepierce/Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:00:00 -0400This exhibit features sheet music and broadside verse expressing the triumphs and tragedies of the war’s battles, grieving mothers, soldier boys, flags, military officers, and even humor. Themes specific to the Civil War yet universal to all armed conflicts remind us of the high cost paid when peaceful solutions and diplomacy fail to win the day.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/civil-war-music/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/civil-war-music/Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:00:00 -0400An exhibition of 160 photographs mounted in 5 venues at Duke University. South African photographer Paul Weinberg conceived and curated Then & Now which is comprised of black and white and color photographs from 8 South African documentary photographers. Twenty photographs were selected from each photographer, 10 made under apartheid and 10 photographs made after the historic democratic elections of 1994.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:00:00 -0400An exhibition of photographs by Tom Rankin from his long-standing work on the sacred traditions and landscapes of the Mississippi Delta.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/tomrankin/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/tomrankin/Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:00:00 -0500Danny Wilcox Frazier’s dramatic black-and-white photographs portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. As rural economies fail, people and resources are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier’s arresting photographs take us into Iowa’s abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish women playing cards, as well as more recent arrivals, Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer and Latinos at work in the fields. Frazier's camera finds these newcomers while it also captures activities that seemingly have gone on forever: harvesting and hunting, celebrating and socializing, praying and surviving.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/dannywfrazier/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/dannywfrazier/Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:00:00 -0500October 30 through Nov 5, 2007 Perkins Library, Duke Universityhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/dayofthedead/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/dayofthedead/index.htmlTue, 30 Oct 2007 01:00:00 -0400Two exhibits were mounted as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture’s third biennial symposium: Stretching the Canvas: Women Exploring the Arts and The Feminist Art Movement, 1970s-1980s.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/modelnormuse/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/modelnormuse/Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:00:00 -0400Margaret Sartor has been documenting her family and her hometown in northern Louisiana for close to a quarter century. This exhibit of evocative black and white prints includes selected portraits and landscapes made between 1986 and 2004.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/margaretsartor/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/margaretsartor/index.htmlMon, 07 Aug 2006 01:00:00 -0400A retrospective of Carl Mydans' early black and white photography for the Farm Security Administration and for Life magazine.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/carlmydans/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/carlmydans/index.htmlMon, 03 Apr 2006 01:00:00 -0400Black and white photographs in this exhibit were selected from thousands of images in the R.C. Maxwell Company Collection, part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History. The R. C. Maxwell Company produced electric "spectacular" signs and billboards and used the photographs to document construction and placement of those advertising signs on the boardwalk.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/maxwell/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/maxwell/index.htmlWed, 11 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500In these black-and-white, landscape photographs, Steven Smith depicts the continuous expansion of suburban development into the deserts and up the mountain sides of California, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado. Smith won the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book in Photography award for this stellar body of work.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/stevensmith/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/stevensmith/index.htmlMon, 07 Nov 2005 01:00:00 -0500This singular show offers 48 photographs made between sunset and sunrise by nocturnal photographers Bill Gedney and Lynn Saville. These beautiful, edgy black and white prints reveal the evocative power of moonlight, reflected light, and deep shadow to alter familiar landscapes and inspire the imagination.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/nightvision/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/nightvision/index.htmlMon, 08 Aug 2005 01:00:00 -0400The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library acquired the James Karales Collection in 2004. The prints in this show were culled from five distinct bodies of work: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March; the Vietnam War; the Lower East Side of New York City; Rendville, Ohio; and logging in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to the exhibition quality prints, the collection contains negatives, slides, contact sheets and 5x7 and 8x10 proof prints.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/jameskarales/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/jameskarales/index.htmlMon, 11 Apr 2005 01:00:00 -0400Comic books have been an integral part of American culture since the 1930s. They have both influenced our collective imagination and echoed the concerns of the eras in which they were published. This exhibit explores the resonance of comic books in 20th century American culture from the 1930s to the present. The comic books in this exhibit are from Duke University's Edwin and Terry Murray Collection of Pulp Culture and, where indicated, the Daniel Breen Collection of American Comic Books, Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/comicbookcultures/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/comicbookcultures/index.htmlThu, 03 Mar 2005 01:00:00 -0500This exhibit of early "funnies" is drawn from the volumes of the recently acquired American Newspaper Repository (ANR) which contains over 152 titles dating from 1852 through 2004. Long runs of The World and The Chicago Tribune provided material for the exhibit. At the turn of the nineteenth century, two newspaper titans, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, were engaged in a bitter rivalry for supremacy in the New York market. The introduction of the color printing press and the modern "comic strip" was instrumental in their competition to circulate the most newspapers.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/earlycomicstrips/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/earlycomicstrips/index.htmlFri, 14 Jan 2005 01:00:00 -0500Against backdrops of rubble, abandoned buildings, and destroyed city blocks, these portrait photographs depict the everyday lives of residents as they struggle to survive "planned shrinkage," an urban planning strategy utilized from the 1960s-1980s to raze residential buildings in older urban areas and replace them with industrial parks.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/melrosenthal/index.htmlhttp://library.duke.edu/exhibits/melrosenthal/index.htmlMon, 02 Aug 2004 01:00:00 -0400Alex Harris juxtaposes two groups of color images - a series of Havana views seen through the windshields of aging American automobiles and a series of American landscapes seen in the context of a boy's electronic game - to explore the potential of the photographer's eye and the camera's frame both to limit and to expand our view of the world.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/alexharris/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/alexharris/This exhibition presents work by Larry Schwarm, winner of the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his series of color images capturing the dramatic prairie fires that sweep across the Flint Hills of Kansas each spring. A professor of art at Emporia State University, Schwarm has spent the past twelve years photographing the burning of the tallgrass prairie in his native state.http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/larryschwarm/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/larryschwarm/