Publications of Thomas S. Rankin :chronological alphabetical combined bibtex listing:
Books
- Rankin, T, Truths of the Matter: Traditions in Documentary Studies (2012)
- Rankin, T, A Place of Tender Images: Paul Kwilecki’s Four Decades of Photography of Decatur County, GA (2012)
- Colors of Confinement: Color Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II, edited by Rankin, T; Hill, IT (2012), University of North Carolina Press [author's comments]
- Jackson, B; Christian, D, In This Timeless Time, edited by Hill, IT; Rankin, TS (2011), University of North Carolina Press [author's comments]
- Rankin, TS, Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, edited by Rankin, T; Hill, IT; Biewen, J; Dilworth, A (2010) [author's comments]
- Rankin, T, Beyond Beauty: The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, in Beyond Beauty (2009), The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library [author's comments]
- Rankin, T, Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000), W.W. Norton and Company/Lyndhurst Books, ISBN 978-0393050288
Articles Published
- Rankin, T, The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious, in Southern Cultures, Southern Cultures (2011)
- Rankin, T, Maasai Community of Lakipia (September, 2009) [available here]
- Tom Rankin, Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families (July, 2009) (Five-hour National Public Radio Special.)
- Rankin, T, Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families (NPR Special) (July, 2009)
- Rankin, T, Paul Kwilecki Remembered, Porch Gallery (2009) (Porch Gallery,http://cdsporch.org/archives/1863.) [1863]
- Rankin, T, Mike Seeger Remembered, Porch Gallery (2009) (Porch Gallery, Http://cdsporch.org/archives/589.) [589]
- Rankin, T, Visualizing the World of William Faulkner, edited by Brownlee, PJ, American Studies International, Oct. 1998, vol. XXXVI no. 3 (2007), University of Press of Mississippi [author's comments]
- Rankin, T, Judgment and Grace in Dixie, in Judgment and Grace in Dixie, edited by Wilson, CR (2007), The University of Georgia Press
- Rankin, T, The Injuries of Time and Weather, Southern Cultures, vol. 13.2 (2007), pp. 3-28 (Introductory essay for special issue on southern photography.)
- Rankin, T, Share a Table, Make a Friend, Appalachian Heritage (2007) (Berea College, KY.)
- Rankin, T, Seeing What We Need To See, The Light Factory (2007) (an essay on documentary photography, River Docs Catalog, Charlotte, NC.)
- Rankin, T, Careful Tending, in Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South, edited by Dilbeck, P (2006), University of Georgia Press (Book by Perry Dilbeck.)
- Rankin, T, Putting a Bottom Under It, Oxford American no. 49 (2005) (Issue 49.)
- Rankin, T, The Last Days of Kitty Shenay, American Radio Works (2004) (Web-based photographic exhibition for "The Hospice Experiment," National Radio Documentary, American Radio Works (americanradioworks.org).) [abs]
- Rankin, T, In Wildness (photo essay), Daylight Magazine, vol. 1 (2004) (Photo essay.)
- Rankin, T, Home and Away at 25, in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Phogtographers (2003), Powerhouse Books
- Rankin, T, Photography’s Lure (October, 2002) (Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Michael Carlos Museum, Emory University.)
- Rankin, T, Rendering Local Community: Stories of Indivisible, Anchorage Museum of History and Art (October, 2002) (Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK.)
- Rankin, T, The Lure of the Picture and the Nature of Tradition (October, 2002) (American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Rochester, New York.)
- Rankin, T, Fixing the Southern Vernacular: The Contemporaneous Art of Walker Evans and William Faulkner (July, 2002) (Delivered at 26th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS.)
- Rankin, T, Indivisible: Stories of American Community (January, 2001) (Tampa Museum of Art.)
- Rankin, T, Crossroads and the Cross: Visualizing the Blues, Visualizing the Blues Symposium (November, 2000) (The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN.)
- Rankin, T, "Near the Cross": Rendering Faiths in the American South" (November, 1999)
- Rankin, T, "Carried to the Heart:: Faith & Doubt" (November, 1999) (Contemporary Southern Art and Literature, Milsaps College, Mississippi.)
Other
- Tom Rankin, The Art of Farming (December, 2010) (Photographs and audio by students at the Center for Documentary Studies, part of the larger Five Farms Project..)
- In My Mind (2009 February) (Tom Rankin, executive producer; (Gary Hawkins, director; Emily Ladue, producer); Traces the creation and performance of Jazz pianist Jason Moran's interpretation of Thelanious Monk's 1959 Town Hall Concert..)
- Tom Rankin, Knowing John McWilliams, Castings (March-April 2002) (publication exhibition created by Cathy Byrd.)
- Tom Rankin, "A Mississippi Portrait": Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1940 (2000) (CD Rom of the Library of Congress. FSA Photographs from Mississippi.)
- Tom Rankin, "Near the Cross": Rendering Faiths in the American South", Image: Journal of Art, Literature and Religion (Winter, 1999)