Rankin valuation
Co-founded Dazed & Confused and has photographed everyone from Kate Moss to Queen Elizabeth II.
Rankin, born John Rankin Waddell in 1966, studied accountancy at Brighton Polytechnic before switching to photography at the London College of Printing, where he met Jefferson Hack.
What a work by Rankin is worth
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Bio
Rankin, born John Rankin Waddell in 1966, studied accountancy at Brighton Polytechnic before switching to photography at the London College of Printing, where he met Jefferson Hack. In 1991 the two founded Dazed & Confused, the magazine that did much to set the look of 1990s London, with Rankin's photographs at its centre. His portraits and fashion pictures, bright, close and often irreverent, have taken in Kate Moss many times over, musicians, politicians and Queen Elizabeth II, and alongside them he has made advertising campaigns, music videos and films and published many books. He founded Hunger magazine in 2011 and runs his own studio in London.
His prints are sold as editions, usually signed and numbered, through galleries and exhibitions, in sizes that range from small to very large. As with most contemporary photography, the edition, the size and the condition decide a print's value more than the fame of the sitter alone, and a print that comes with its certificate or gallery paperwork is much easier to place. Magazine pages, posters and book plates are a different and far smaller market. Large prints, especially face-mounted or framed behind acrylic, need care: scratches, creases and light damage are expensive to put right at that scale.
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