Publications of Thomas S Rankin    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1. Tom Rankin, A Place of Tender Images: Paul Kwilecki's Four Decades of Photography of Decatur County, GA (Forthcoming, Fall 2012)
2. Tom Rankin, Truths of the Matter: Traditions in Documentary Studies (Forthcoming 2012)
3. Colors of Confinement: Color Photographs of Japanese AmericanIncarceration in World War II, edited by Tom Rankin with Iris Tillman Hill (2012)  [author's comments]
4. In This Timeless Time, edited by Tom Rankin, with Iris Tillman Hill (Fall 2011)  [author's comments]
5. Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, edited by Tom Rankin, with Iris Tillman Hill, John Biewen & Alexa Dilworth (2010)  [author's comments]
6. Tom Rankin, Beyond Beauty: The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, in Beyond Beauty (2009)  [author's comments]
7. Tom Rankin, Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000), W.W. Norton and Company/Lyndhurst Books

Articles Published

1. Tom Rankin, The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious, in Southern Cultures (Summer 2011)
2. Tom Rankin, Maasai Community of Lakipia (September, 2009)
3. Tom Rankin, Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families (July, 2009) (Five-hour National Public Radio Special.)
4. Tom Rankin, Mike Seeger Remembered (2009) (Porch Gallery, Http://cdsporch.org/archives/589.)
5. Tom Rankin, Paul Kwilecki Remembered (May 2009) (Porch Gallery,http://cdsporch.org/archives/1863.)
6. Tom Rankin, Judgment and Grace in Dixie, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson (June 2007), The University of Georgia Press
7. Tom Rankin, Visualizing the World of William Faulkner, edited by Peter J. Brownlee, American Studies International, Oct. 1998, vol. XXXVI no. 3 (2007), University of Press of Mississippi  [author's comments]
8. Tom Rankin, The Injuries of Time and Weather, Southern Cultures, vol. 13.2 (2007 summer), pp. 3-28 (Introductory essay for special issue on southern photography.)
9. Tom Rankin, Seeing What We Need To See, The Light Factory (2007 summer) (an essay on documentary photography, River Docs Catalog, Charlotte, NC.)
10. Tom Rankin, Share a Table, Make a Friend, Appalachian Heritage (2007) (Berea College, KY.)
11. Tom Rankin, Careful Tending, in Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South (2006), University of Georgia Press (Book by Perry Dilbeck.)
12. Tom Rankin, Putting a Bottom Under It, Oxford American (2005) (Issue 49.)
13. Tom Rankin, The Last Days of Kitty Shenay (June 2004) (Web-based photographic exhibition for "The Hospice Experiment," National Radio Documentary, American Radio Works (americanradioworks.org).)
14. Tom Rankin, In Wildness, Daylight Magazine, vol. 1 (March 2004) (Photo essay.)
15. Tom Rankin, Home and Away at 25, in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Phogtographers (2003), Powerhouse Books
16. Tom Rankin, The Lure of the Picture and the Nature of Tradition (October, 2002) (American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Rochester, New York.)
17. Tom Rankin, Fixing the Southern Vernacular: The Contemporaneous Art of Walker Evans and William Faulkner (July, 2002) (Delivered at 26th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS.)
18. Tom Rankin, "Indivisible: Stories of American Community" (January, 2001) (Tampa Museum of Art.)
19. Tom Rankin, "Crossroads and the Cross: Visualizing the Blues, Visualizing the Blues Symposium" (November, 2000) (The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN.)
20. Tom Rankin, "Carried to the Heart:: Faith & Doubt" (November, 1999) (Contemporary Southern Art and Literature, Milsaps College, Mississippi.)
21. Tom Rankin, "Near the Cross": Rendering Faiths in the American South" (November, 1999)

Articles Accepted

1. Tom Rankin, Rendering Local Community: Stories of Indivisible (October, 2002) (Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK.)
2. Tom Rankin, Photography's Lure (October, 2002) (Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Michael Carlos Museum, Emory University.)

Other

1. 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..)
2. 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..)
3. Tom Rankin, Knowing John McWilliams, Castings (March-April 2002) (publication exhibition created by Cathy Byrd.)
4. Tom Rankin, "A Mississippi Portrait": Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1940 (2000) (CD Rom of the Library of Congress. FSA Photographs from Mississippi.)
5. Tom Rankin, "Near the Cross": Rendering Faiths in the American South", Image: Journal of Art, Literature and Religion (Winter, 1999)