Archive of Documentary Arts
Welcome
The Archive of Documentary Arts is part of Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Its mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to photography and moving images that document the human condition. It works closely with the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
**Our Reading Room CLOSES December 17, 2012, and REOPENS on the 3rd floor of Perkins Library on January 7, 2013.**
Planning a research visit? You can register as a researcher and request your materials online! Please request all materials at least 4 days before you plan to arrive.
Asking a question by phone, mail, or e-mail? Responses to reference inquiries will take more time between December 17, 2012 and February 17th, 2013 while our collections are on the move.
Keep up with the latest renovation news by visiting our renovation news website.
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Sidney D. Gamble Photographs, 1917–1932
William Gedney Photographs and Writings
David Goldblatt, Then & Now,
South Africa Documentary Photographs Collection
Still from Kannapolis, NC 1941,
H. Lee Waters Film Collection, 1936–2005
Jonathan Hyman Photographs, 2002–2011
James Longley, still from Iraq in Fragments (2006),
Full Frame Archive
Selma–Montgomery Civil Rights March,
James Karales Photographs, 1953–2005
Still from Reel 20 (USSR 1967),
Morris and Dorothy Margolin Film Collection, 1947–1976
Raul Castro, Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963–1964
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