| Dates: | 1814 - 1867 | | Active: | UK |
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As a surgeon in Norwich, Ranking was well placed to join the newly formed Norwich Photographic Society. In its 1856 exhibition he showed twelve waxed-paper views of architecture and scenery in the Norwich area. According to the Norfolk News, his “many specimens by this process . . . display alike artistic and photographic skill.” One of his entries was of Costessey Hall, suggesting a possible connection with John Blowers, an amateur photographer and the manager of the estate. The few surviving examples of Ranking’s work indicate that he was a master of the waxed-paper process, employing it successfully even for church interiors. He was to become the second president of the society. He is best known in medical circles for his editorship of The Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences.
Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007)
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Date last updated: 4 Nov 2012.
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