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| Thomas S Rankin, Professor of the Practice of Art, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and Director, Center for Documentary Studies
- Contact Info:
- Education:
| MFA | Georgia State University | 1987 |
| MA | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1983 |
| BA | Tufts University | 1980 |
| Other | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | 1978 |
- Specialties:
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Photography, Filmaking & Folklore
Production - Documentary
- Research Interests:
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).
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Tom Rankin, A Place of Tender Images: Paul Kwilecki's Four Decades of Photography of Decatur County, GA
(Forthcoming, Fall 2012)
- Tom Rankin, Truths of the Matter: Traditions in Documentary Studies
(Forthcoming 2012)
- Colors of Confinement: Color Photographs of Japanese AmericanIncarceration in World War II, edited by Tom Rankin with Iris Tillman Hill
(2012) [author's comments]
- In This Timeless Time, edited by Tom Rankin, with Iris Tillman Hill
(Fall 2011) [author's comments]
- Tom Rankin, The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious,
in Southern Cultures
(Summer 2011)
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