Star Axis, NM, 9-20-99, 1999
Gelatin-Silver Print
16x20" Image
22x28" Mat
Artist Statement
Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over thirty years. His ongoing work recording important aspects of pre-Columbian archaeological sites of the southern Andes resulted in the book Monuments of the Incas, 1982,'90. Since 1985 he has dedicated himself to a comprehensive photographic survey of pre-Columbian sites along the Andean Desert Coast. He was awarded a grant from Northern Arts Council of Great Britain in 1980 to photograph aspects of Cumbria, U.K, and in 1992 was commissioned to photograph the route of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, resulting in the book and exhibit Prairie Passage, presented in 1998.
Ranney has also photographed extensively in New Mexico, where he has lived since 1970. In addition to a townscape survey of the state, funded in 1977-78 by a J.S.Guggenheim Fellowship, he participated in The New Mexico Photographic Survey, sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, 1982-83, and in 1999 he photographed for the 2000 National Millenium Survey. Since 1979 he has annually photographed the construction of the New Mexico earth sculpture, Star Axis, under construction by Charles Ross.
In addition to his own work, Ranney has been instrumental in developing an international awareness of early 20th century Cusco photography. In 1977 he directed an Earthwatch Expedition to print and file the Martín Chambi photographic archive in Cusco, and in collaboration with the Chambi family curated and printed the retrospective exhibition Martin Chambi, Photographer of Cusco, selections of which have been seen in many different venues throughout the North America, Europe, and Latin America.
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