Photographer Alex Harris’ new book, Our Strange New Land: Narrative Movie Sets in the American South, opens with a dream-like image of a young girl staring directly at the viewer from a darkened doorway, her arms reaching out to part a curtain of swinging beads. The photograph was made on the set of Roni Nicole Henderson-Day’s “And the People Could Fly,” a film, writes Henderson-Day in the essay she contributed to Harris’ book, “about the gravitas of life.”
From China to modern Palestine, from Renaissance Europe to Reagan’s America of the 1980s, new books by Duke faculty will take you on a fascinating journey through time and space. We present a selection of books published in late 2021. Many of the books, including new editions of previous titles, can be found on the “Duke Authors” display shelves near the circulation desk in Perkins Library. Some are available as e-books for quick download. Most can also be purchased through the Gothic Bookshop.
From China to modern Palestine, from Renaissance Europe to Reagan’s America of the 1980s, new books by Duke faculty will take you on a fascinating journey through time and space. We present a selection of books published in late 2021. Many of the books, including new editions of previous titles, can be found on the “Duke Authors” display shelves near the circulation desk in Perkins Library. Some are available as e-books for quick download. Most can also be purchased through the Gothic Bookshop.
Year of the Beast : How Tara Wray Used Photography To Process Fear And Uncertainty
Untitled By Di Amond Moore
Photographer Tara Wray wanted to capture 2020, the year that had everyone on their toes, in her own way. So she created
Year of the Beast a book that acts as her own diary and captures moments of joy, family and home.
For Wray, as for many of us, this past year was intensely difficult, she says. But it also made me look at the world in new ways, which is what I tried to capture. I hope that people will see themselves, or their families or loved ones in these pictures.