Background
Tom Rankin was born on April 6, 1957 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States; the son of John S. Rankin, a businessman, and Jane Lee Almstedt Rankin, a homemaker.
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Tom Rankin received a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in 1980.
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Tom Rankin received a Master of Science from the University of North Carolina in 1983.
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Tom Rankin received a Master of Fine Arts from Georgia State University in 1988.
Tom Rankin was born on April 6, 1957 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States; the son of John S. Rankin, a businessman, and Jane Lee Almstedt Rankin, a homemaker.
Tom Rankin received a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in 1980, a Master of Science from the University of North Carolina in 1983 and a Master of Fine Arts from Georgia State University in 1988.
Tom Rankin wrote his first book Sacred Space in 1993, following by Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life in 1995, Faulkner’s World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain in 1997 and Local Heroes Changing America in 2000. He also edited and wrote the introductory essay for the book One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (2013).
Tom works as a Professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University where he directs the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts and as the general editor of the Series on Documentary Arts and Culture with the University of North Carolina Press. For 15 years he also was a director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. Rankin was an associate professor of Art and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and Chair of the Art Department at Delta State University.
(Tom Rankin's black-and-white photographs explore the hear...)
1993(Stories of extraordinary men and women who are making the...)
2000Tom Rankin married Evaline Ruth Ervin on March 2, 1985. They have two children - Julian and Alexander.