Tom Rankin photographs, 1980-2008

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Tom Rankin photographs, 1980-2008

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Tom Rankin is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, folklorist, professor of art and documentary studies, and former director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The Tom Rankin photographs collection dates from 1980-2008 and consists of black and white and color large-format and contact prints from Rankin's work documenting the American South, particularly religious sites, rituals, and communities in the Mississippi Delta region. A selection of Rankin's photographs was published in , 1993. Other prints portray various places and people elsewhere in the American South; another series features as its subject Mississippi writer Larry Brown. There is also a digital audio recording of a talk by Rankin at the exhibit opening of his work, Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta Near the Cross: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta.

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Rankin, Thomas Donald

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Tom Rankin served as the Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for three consecutive five-year terms until 2013, and is a Professor of the Practice in the Arts at Duke University. A documentary photographer, filmmaker, writer, editor, and folklorist, he has been documenting and interpreting American culture, particularly in the South, for nearly twenty years. His photographic work has been published and widely exhibited. His most long-standing work has been to reveal ...