williamsjennette Inventory of the Jennette Williams Photographs, 2000-2006 Processed by: Meghan Lyon; machine-readable finding aid created by: Meghan Lyon David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: March 2010Processed by Meghan Lyon, March 2010; finding aid encoded by Meghan Lyon, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, March 2010 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and local Style Guide Inventory of the Jennette Williams Photographs, 2000-2006 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

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 Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Williams, Jennette. Jennette Williams Photographs, 2000-2006 Material in English 4.0 Linear Feet 14 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Documentary photographer and instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Fourth recipient of the biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography in 2008. (Acc. 2009-0141, 2009-0245, and 2009-0246) (14 items; 4.0 lin. ft.; dated 2000-2006) includes 10 (20x24) platinum/palladium contact prints and 3 (20x24) pigment ink on rice paper images from Williams' book, The Bathers, featuring women bathing and lounging in Turkish and Hungarian bathhouses. Also includes a CD of an artist talk given by Williams at an exhibit opening in 2009. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts (Duke University). Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jennette Williams Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

 Provenance

The Jennette Williams Photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase and a gift in 2009.

Processing Information

Processed by Meghan Lyon, March 2010

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, March 2010

This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2009-0141, 2009-0245, 2009-0246

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

 Biographical Note

Jennette Williams is a documentary photographer and an instructor in fine arts photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work, The Bathers, was selected as the 2008 winner of the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, and was published as a book by Duke University Press in 2009.

Williams is originally from New York, and has a master's degree from Yale University. She has previously been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, a Golden Light Award, and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She began photographing women exercising in swimming pools in Manhattan, and gradually expanded her project to focus on women bathers worldwide.

 Collection Overview

Collection includes 13 prints from The Bathers, Williams' winning entry for the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize. Prints are 20x24, and feature women bathing and lounging in steam rooms and bathhouses in Istanbul and Budapest. Ten of the images are platinum/palladium contact prints, and the remaining three are pigment ink on rice paper.

This collection also includes a CD with an artist talk, given by Williams at the opening of the Duke exhibit of The Bathers in 2009. This item has been transferred to Duke's electronic server.

 Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

Williams, Jennette. Documentary photography. Portrait photography. Photography of women--Hungary--Budapest. Photography of women--Turkey--Istanbul. Photography of the nude. Bathhouses--Hungary--Budapest--Pictorial works. Bathhouses--Turkey--Istanbul--Pictorial works. Duke University--Center for Documentary Studies. Archive for Documentary Arts (Duke University). Contents of Collection The Bathers, 2000-2006 (2 boxes) 1Prints, 2000-2006 2Prints, 2000-2006