Gallery Talk: Tom Rankin

Join us for a gallery talk with Tom Rankin at the Nasher’s new exhibition, Coming into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher. Rankin will discuss the exhibition, including his photograph, Covens Reliable Discount Store, Crystal Spring Mississippi, which is currently on display.

About Tom Rankin
Tom Rankin is a professor of the Practice of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Previously director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, he currently directs Duke’s Master of Fine Arts program in Experimental and Documentary Arts. Rankin received his BA in history from Tufts University, an MA in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MFA in photography from Georgia State University in Atlanta. A photographer and writer, his work has been published widely in numerous magazines, journals, and books, and his photographs are included in numerous private and museum collections. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993); ‘Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre’: Photographs of a River Life (1995); Faulkner’s World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain(1997); Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000), and One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (2013), and, with his wife Jill McCorkle, Goat Light(2021). Rankin’s work is included in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Library of Congress, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, among many other collections.