Thomas S Rankin, Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Center for Documentary Studies- Duke University

Thomas S Rankin, Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Center for Documentary
Studies

Specialization:

Photography, Filmaking & Folklore

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A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, 'Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life(1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).
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Email Address: tsr2@duke.edu

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Recent Publications (More Publications)

T. Rankin. "Rendering Local Community: Stories of Indivisible." (October, Accepted, 2002). (Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK)
T. Rankin. "Photography's Lure." (October, Accepted, 2002). (Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Michael Carlos Museum, Emory University)
T. Rankin. "The Lure of the Picture and the Nature of Tradition." (October, Accepted, 2002). (American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Rochester, New York)
T. Rankin. "Fixing the Southern Vernacular: The Contemporaneous Art of Walker Banks and William Faulkner." (July, Accepted, 2002). (Delivered at 26th annual Faulkner & Yoknafatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS)
T. Rankin. "Knowing John McWilliams." Castings (2002). (publication exhibition created by Cathy Byrd)