John Ranard

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Ranard
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Feb 7, 1952(1952-02-07)
Age	72
Date Of Death	2008-05-14
Birthplace	Washington, D.C.
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

John Ranard Biography

John Ranard is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on February 7, 1952 in Washington, D.C., United States. John Ranard (February 7, 1952 until May 14 May 14, John Ranard (February 7, 1952 – May 14, 2008) was a documentary photographer who received the attention of critics due to his striking, multi-layered photos of Louisville and Kentucky’s social classes and the boxing scene, Russia during the period of Perestroika, AIDS in Russia and Russian prison life.

In his Louisville period when Ranard began to capture the inner workings of professional and amateur boxing. The entry into professional boxing was made possible by his close relationship with Louisville boxer Greg Page, who was controlled by Don King in the early period of his career and was champion at heavyweight during the period of 1984-1985.

Photographs from On Boxing appeared at an exhibition by the International Center for Photography in New York City of the “most notable photography books” of 1987, entitled “Midtown Review”. Oates said of Ranard’s photographs, “They’re very poetic. They’re the highest kind of journalism, where it passes into art. They’re very unpretentious.”

Oates subsequently expanded on her essay and portions of The Brutal Aesthetic appeared aside her text in the book On Boxing, published in 1987 and now (2017) a Harper Perennial. In 1986, the year before the publication of On Boxing, Ranard’s Brutal Aesthetic portfolio won a Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship.

In the early 1980s, Ranard moved to New York City’s East Village and periodically photographed the life on the streets in his community, the squatter rights protests, and Tompkins Square Park protests. The year 1992 was when Ranard started to make many long trips to document the disintegration of Russian Empire. A significant portion from his Russian portfolio was devoted to the drug-related issue in Russia. In 1998, as part of the 55th annual Pictures of the Year Competition He was awarded first prize in the category of Issue Reporting Picture Story from the National Press Association as well as The Missouri School of Journalism for his photographic essay on the use of drugs within Russia, “Inside a High Risk Community”. The photographs had previously appeared in The New York Times Week in Review and were accompanied by an article written by Michael Specter.

John Ranard Net Worth

John Ranard is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Ranard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the course of recovering from Hodgkin’s disease Ranard went back to the home where his family resided at Vienna, Virginia, and in the middle of the 1970s when he was injured in the mid-1970s, he broke his neck in a car crash and utilized the insurance settlement to attend Louisville’s Center for Photographic Studies. In the latter part of the 1970s, Ranard was able to showcase his photography in the two alternate Louisville news publications, City Paper and Louisville Today and was experimenting with his work. He earned a reputation at this point “as one of Louisville’s most active and original photographers” and published his work in a journalistic manner and also exhibiting at art galleries such as The Louisville’s Portland Museum.

Within his portfolio of boxing called The Brutal aesthetic, Ranard developed his work into a meticulously controlled, disciplined style of black-and white photography. While Ranard took pictures of fights inside the arena, the major portion of the portfolio is devoted to documenting the background events of the sport that suggested the sport’s explosive nature. Marcy Werner, curator of the University of Louisville Fine Print Collection and has completed an MA dissertation about the work of Ranard and claims that it was at the period of time when Ranard changed into a photographer who was documentary to an acclaimed Social documentary photographer. She was able to observe, for instance his critical depiction on the entourage that includes managers and promoters that accompany fighters and earn (or expect to earn) money by sacrificing fighters in the boxing ring. She also observed a few instances of mildness in the portfolio by referring to the photo “Purcell Davis (1979)” that shows a wrestler taking a weigh-in and disrobing, with his head covered in a hooded jacket to ensure that only the contours of his body was visible which brought to mind the technique used in Michelangelo’s David. Then, in “Round 1–Jerry McIntyre (vs. Greg Page) (1979)” A photograph of a slack-faced fighter being in a ring with his handlers She was reminded of The Deposition by Raphael. The Deposition.

In 1985, Ranard read an essay by Joyce Carol Oates on boxing which appeared in the New York Times Magazine and approached Oates with the idea of a book collaboration. In his letter to her, Ranard expressed his aesthetics on documentary photography:

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