Duke University - Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Publications of Thomas S Rankin

• Books

  • • 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.
    • 2012.

    Publication Description

    Center for Documentary Studies and University of North Carolina Press Series in Documentary Art and Culture

  • • In This Timeless Time.
    • Fall 2011.

    Publication Description

    Center for Documentary Studies and University of North Carolina Press Series in Documentary Art and Culture

  • • Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound.
    • 2010.

    Publication Description

    Center for Documentary Studies and University of North Carolina Press Series in Documentary Art and Culture

  • • Tom Rankin.
    • Beyond Beauty: The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
    • 2009.

    Publication Description

    The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

  • • Tom Rankin.
    • Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible.
    • W.W. Norton and Company/Lyndhurst Books,
    • 2000.

• Articles Published

  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious."
    • Southern Cultures.
    • Summer 2011.
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Maasai Community of Lakipia."
    • September, 2009.
    • [web]
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families."
    • July, 2009.
    • (Five-hour National Public Radio Special)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Mike Seeger Remembered."
    • 2009.
    • (Porch Gallery, Http://cdsporch.org/archives/589)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Paul Kwilecki Remembered."
    • May 2009.
    • (Porch Gallery,http://cdsporch.org/archives/1863)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Judgment and Grace in Dixie."
    • Ed. Charles Reagan Wilson.
    • The University of Georgia Press,
    • June 2007.
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Visualizing the World of William Faulkner."
    • American Studies International, Oct. 1998
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    • Ed. Peter J. Brownlee.
    • XXXVI
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    • University of Press of Mississippi,
    • (2007)
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    Publication Description

    Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain, edited and with an introduction by Tom Rankin

  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "The Injuries of Time and Weather."
    • Southern Cultures
    • 13.2
    • (2007 summer)
    • :
    • 3-28.
    • (Introductory essay for special issue on southern photography)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Seeing What We Need To See."
    • The Light Factory
    • (2007 summer)
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    • (an essay on documentary photography, River Docs Catalog, Charlotte, NC)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Share a Table, Make a Friend."
    • Appalachian Heritage
    • (2007)
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    • (Berea College, KY)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Careful Tending."
    • Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South.
    • University of Georgia Press,
    • 2006.
    • (Book by Perry Dilbeck)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Putting a Bottom Under It."
    • Oxford American
    • (2005)
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    • (Issue 49)
  • • 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))
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "In Wildness."
    • Daylight Magazine
    • 1
    • (March 2004)
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    • (Photo essay)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Home and Away at 25."
    • 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Phogtographers.
    • Powerhouse Books,
    • 2003.
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "The Lure of the Picture and the Nature of Tradition."
    • 2002.
    • (American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Rochester, New York)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • "Fixing the Southern Vernacular: The Contemporaneous Art of Walker Evans and William Faulkner."
    • 2002.
    • (Delivered at 26th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • ""Indivisible: Stories of American Community"."
    • 2001.
    • (Tampa Museum of Art)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • ""Crossroads and the Cross: Visualizing the Blues, Visualizing the Blues Symposium"."
    • 2000.
    • (The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • ""Carried to the Heart:: Faith & Doubt"."
    • 1999.
    • (Contemporary Southern Art and Literature, Milsaps College, Mississippi)
  • • Tom Rankin.
    • ""Near the Cross": Rendering Faiths in the American South"."
    • 1999.

• Articles Accepted

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

• 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)
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    • (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
    • (1999)
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