A new exhibition signed Rankin: Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time) 

Dynamic and cool, creative and trend-setting: the British photographer’s work Rankin is multifaceted, and he has long been considered one of the most sought-after and influential photographers of our time. A new exhibition signed Rankin, Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time), with his works will be on display in Germany this summer. (Foto up: Rankin, Vivienne Westwood, POP, 2002)

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The Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar is presenting an exhibition by the famous British photographer Rankin, opening on May 26. Duration: May 26 – September 27, 2023. www.ernst-leitz-museum.com.

The exhibition… 

… will offer fascinating and unexpected insight into Rankin’s exceptional oeuvre. Some of his best pictures, taken over the past three decades, will be on display. The exhibition will include many iconic portraits and celebrity shots that have made it into the annals of photographic history: colourful beauty images and classic fashion spreads, as well as examples of his profoundly conceptual series. Titled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time), motifs from the 1990s to the 2000s enter into a dialogue with brand new and never-before-published pictures from 2023. 

Personalities, magazines and more through his lenses… 

…. Queen Elizabeth II, Vivienne Westwood, Ewan McGregor, Björk, Heidi Klum, David Bowie – the list goes on and on. 

… at the beginning of the nineties, Rankin and Jefferson Hack established Dazed & Confused, a provocative – for the times – zeitgeist magazine, which brought together a mixture of different genres, such as fashion, graphics, design and photography. 

… he has been comfortably at home in the film industry for years now. In addition to long TV films, he has produced countless music videos, covering a list of artists that resembles a Who’s Who of the music scene. 

About Rankin…

… he was born John Rankin Waddell in Scotland, on April 28, 1966. Despite early artistic inclinations, he first studied Business Administration. Following a BTech course at Barnfield College in Luton, followed by a BA course at the London College of Printing, he finally made his way into photography. In 1991, together with Jefferson Hack, he founded the magazine Dazed & Confused; and the Dazed Film & TV Agency in 1999. In December of 2000, he published his own fashion magazine, titled Rank, for the first time. This was followed by the magazine Hunger, which has been published since 2011.