The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
By Tom Rankin
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Published: June 2011 -
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About the Author
Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years as photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist. He is Associate Professor of the Practice of Art and director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. 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).
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