William Gedney, detail from Kentucky Notebook
Jeanine Michna Bales, detail from Stopover, Frogmore Plantation; Concordia Parish, Louisiana
Joshua Rashaad McFadden, detail from Jeremiah Thompson left, and his father, Joseph Thompson
Jess T. Dugan, detail from Hank, 76, and Samm, 67, North Little Rock, AR
Frank Espada, detail from Washington, DC, 1973
James Karales, detail from contact sheet
Leah Dyjak, detail from New Beach
Priya Kambli, detail from Me (Orange)
Wendel White, images from the series Manifest
Access
We work to ensure collections are available and accessible to a diverse group of individuals. We strive to expand and strengthen avenues of access that are equitable and open. We balance this with the appropriate privacy restrictions. While we try to honor these limits requested by creators or donors of collections, we also seek to foster accountability and will conduct a through review of restrictions prior to accepting materials. We support teaching and access by campus users as well as welcome those that come from beyond our campus community.
A number of our collections are tagged with physical/technical restrictions due to the fragility of the original media, such as cassette tapes, 16mm film, and negatives among others. They are available to view either on the Digital Repository, or via use copies or digital copies in the Reading Room.
We recognize there are times when viewing the original media is warranted for research. In order to request access to the physical media or to inquire about any restrictions on collections in the Archive of Documentary Arts please email Caitlin Margaret Kelly, curator, at caitlin.kelly@duke.edu, or via phone at 919-681-7963, or you may reach out to J. Andrew Armacost, head of collection development for the Rubenstein Library.
Collection Awards
The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University’s Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is pleased to announce the recipient of its annual Collection Awards. Since 2015, the award has recognized excellence in documentary film, photography, and audio, with a cash honorarium and the chance to have a body of work archivally preserved at Duke.
This year’s winning project, To Be at War is by Korean American photographer Arin Yoon.
“From those first moments on a remote military base in the California high desert to coping with the rippling effects of trauma at the end of my spouse's career, my work is a document, over time, of the American military experience,” she writes.
