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 The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), an interdisciplinary educational organization affiliated with Duke University, is dedicated to advancing documentary work that combines experience and creativity with education and community life. Founded in 1989, CDS connects the arts and humanities to fieldwork, drawing on photography, filmmaking, oral history, folklore, and writing as catalysts for education and change. CDS supports the active examination of contemporary society, the recognition of collaboration as central to documentary work, and the presentation of experiences that heighten our historical and cultural awareness. CDS achieves this work through academic courses, research, oral history and other fieldwork, gallery and traveling exhibitions, annual awards, book publishing, community-based projects, and public events. The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona is a museum and research institution dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record. The CCP holds more archives and individual works by 20th-century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation, including the archives of over sixty major 20th—century American photographers—Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Weston and Garry Winogrand among them—whose prints are the centerpiece of an art collection numbering more than sixty thousand works by two thousand photographers. The CCP has an integrated program of preservation, access, and education that celebrates the history of photography and its contemporary practice and is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2000 and 2001.  The Pew Charitable Trusts support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy, and religion. Based in Philadelphia, the Trusts make strategic investments to help organizations and citizens develop practical solutions to difficult problems. In 1999, with approximately $4.9 billion in assets, the Trusts granted more than $250 million to 206 organizations. The Pew Charitable Trusts invest in ideas that fuel timely action and results. They focus a significant portion of their resources on supporting programs that stimulate participation in civic affairs. These include initiatives that foster a citizenry more engaged in local, regional, and national public issues and that provide information resources for the media, the public, and policymakers. The programs supported by the Trusts address a spectrum of issues affecting the democratic impulse, especially among younger people. These include partnerships that drive public participation in local and national democratic processes; research revealing the motivations for, and impediments to, individuals becoming engaged in social action; establishing information resources for the media, public, and policymakers; and preserving original historic documents and sites that serve as touchstones for animating discussion about the rights and responsibilities that define us as Americans. The collective goal of these investments is to reinvigorate public participation in democracy and, by doing so, strengthen the fabric of community that extends from neighborhood to nationhood. ABOUT THE PROJECT | GALLERY | TRAVELING EXHIBITS | THE BOOK | RESOURCES | HOME
© 2000 INDIVISIBLE IS A PROJECT OF THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY,THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, AND IS FUNDED BY THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS. |
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