Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize collection, 1993-2021

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Summary

Creator:
Aimi, Chinen, 1988-, Amberg, Rob, Berridge, Mary, Brown, Peter (Peter T.), Eskenazi, Jason, Huneault, Michel, 1976-, Keasler, Misty, Kim, Katherine Yungyee, Lemoyne, Roger, 1954-, Lommasson, Jim, Luster, Deborah, McAdams, Dona Ann, Ramos, Daniel, 1978- , Wallace, Amanda Russhell, 1986-, Weber, Donald, 1973-, and Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies
Abstract:
The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize is awarded by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies to visual artists and writers working on documentary projects. The collection houses the work of 16 documentarians, all winners of the Center for Documentary Studies Lange-Taylor Prize from 1996 to 2020: Chinen Aimi, Rob Amberg, Mary Berridge, Peter Brown, Steven Cozart, Jason Eskenazi, Michel Huneault, Misty Keasler, Katherine Yungyee Kim, Roger LeMoyne, Jim Lommasson, Deborah Luster, Dona Ann McAdams, Daniel Ramos, Amanda Russhell Wallace, and Donald Weber. Their portfolios total 139 color and black-and-white photographic prints, 2 illustrated publications, and 6 digital videos. The projects engage with a wide variety of topics: the culture of boxing gyms; the effects of highway construction in the Appalachian mountains of N.C.; the experiences of HIV-positive women; the changing culture and traditions of Jews in Azerbaijan; the lives of older schizophrenics institutionalized in the U.S.; the experiences of Mexican immigrants and their families in Chicago; "colorism," prejudice within one's own racial community based on relative skin hue; a French-Canadian community coping with environmental and social trauma caused by a train derailment; the people, cultures, and landscapes of the U.S. High Plains; the experiences of Korean families affected and separated by conflicts, borders, and cultural identities; grieving and family in an African American community; crime, prostitution, and addiction in Ukraine; the impact of colonizers on the island of Okinawa; a Guatemala city landfill and its inhabitants; portraits of incarcerated people in Louisiana; and the effects of war on the former Yugoslavia. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Extent:
12.5 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
53.7 Gigabytes (6 digital video files (.mov, .wav, .mp4))
Language:
Material in English and Japanese
Collection ID:
RL.00795

Background

Scope and content:

The collection houses the work of 16 documentarians, all winners of the Center for Documentary Studies Lange-Taylor Prize from 1996 to 2020: Chinen Aimi, Rob Amberg, Mary Berridge, Peter Brown, Steven Cozart, Jason Eskenazi, Michel Huneault, Misty Keasler, Katherine Yungyee Kim, Roger LeMoyne, Jim Lommasson, Deborah Luster, Dona Ann McAdams, Daniel Ramos, Amanda Russhell Wallace, and Donald Weber. Their portfolios total 139 color and black-and-white photographic prints, 2 illustrated publications, and 6 digital videos. These individuals, some in partnership with writers, received Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for their projects. Contributions to the Rubenstein Library Lange-Taylor archive are voluntary.

The project contents date from 1993 to 2021, and engage with a wide variety of topics: the culture of boxing gyms; the effects of highway construction in the Appalachian mountains of N.C.; the experiences of HIV-positive women; the changing culture and traditions of Jews in Azerbaijan; the lives of older schizophrenics institutionalized in the U.S.; the experiences of Mexican immigrants and their families in Chicago; "colorism," prejudice within one's own racial community based on relative skin hue; a French-Canadian community coping with environmental and social trauma caused by a train derailment; the people, cultures, and landscapes of the U.S. High Plains; the experiences of Korean families affected and separated by conflicts, borders, and cultural identities; grieving and family in an African American community; crime, prostitution, and addiction in Ukraine; the impact of colonizers on the island of Okinawa; a Guatemala city landfill and its inhabitants; portraits of incarcerated people in Louisiana; and the effects of war on the former Yugoslavia. Portraits predominate across the collections.

Several of the collections include digital videos, some in the form of oral histories, as well as paper copies of the artist's statements regarding their projects.

Biographical / historical:

The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University was founded in 1989 as a nonprofit affiliate dedicated to the evolving practice of the documentary arts across all forms and mediums and to supporting documentary artists. Each year CDS awards the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize to individuals in the early stages of a documentary project. The prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. Donations of portfolios to the archive is voluntary.

Brief biographies of individual artists are found with the project entries.

Acquisition information:
The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize Collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift from the Center for Documentary Studies in 2007, 2011, 2019, and 2023.
Processing information:

Processed and described by Meghan Lyon and Karen Glynn, August 2010.

Updated by Meghan Lyon, March 2011 and October 2011.

Additions processed and described by Paula Jeannet, July 2012, July 2019, October 2019, March-September 2023, and December 2023.

Accession(s) represented in this collection guide: 2010-0133, 2011-0054, 2011-0201, 2019-0107, 2019-0141, 2023-0001, 2023-0074, 2023-0092, and 2023-0161.

Arrangement:

The projects series are organized in the order in which they received the Lange-Taylor Prize.

Physical facet:
139 photographic prints; 2 artist's books
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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