The Last Steam Railroad in America
Photos by O. Winston Link
Text by Thomas H. Garver
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995
ISBN: 0-8109-3575-9
Hardcover
Page Count: 144
Link was a genius at his photographic trade, and he matched that excellence with a subject worthy of his great skills. He anticipated the slowing down and eventual death of the steam railroads and then the coal mining culture where those engines held on longest. He set out to document them, inventing new techniques along the way. His most vivid images are the nighttime passages of the trains, often illuminated in a blaze of light generated by multiple lights ignited at the same moment. This allowed a long, huge image to emerge that captured the engine and tender and cars in exquisite detail. Of course, there are also townscapes and the Appalachian workers, which gives a wholeness to his volumes. A great man, a great book!
Description: Excellent condition with the obvious exception of the lack of a dust cover.
Photos by O. Winston Link
Text by Thomas H. Garver
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995
ISBN: 0-8109-3575-9
Hardcover
Page Count: 144
Link was a genius at his photographic trade, and he matched that excellence with a subject worthy of his great skills. He anticipated the slowing down and eventual death of the steam railroads and then the coal mining culture where those engines held on longest. He set out to document them, inventing new techniques along the way. His most vivid images are the nighttime passages of the trains, often illuminated in a blaze of light generated by multiple lights ignited at the same moment. This allowed a long, huge image to emerge that captured the engine and tender and cars in exquisite detail. Of course, there are also townscapes and the Appalachian workers, which gives a wholeness to his volumes. A great man, a great book!
Description: Excellent condition with the obvious exception of the lack of a dust cover.
Photos by O. Winston Link
Text by Thomas H. Garver
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995
ISBN: 0-8109-3575-9
Hardcover
Page Count: 144
Link was a genius at his photographic trade, and he matched that excellence with a subject worthy of his great skills. He anticipated the slowing down and eventual death of the steam railroads and then the coal mining culture where those engines held on longest. He set out to document them, inventing new techniques along the way. His most vivid images are the nighttime passages of the trains, often illuminated in a blaze of light generated by multiple lights ignited at the same moment. This allowed a long, huge image to emerge that captured the engine and tender and cars in exquisite detail. Of course, there are also townscapes and the Appalachian workers, which gives a wholeness to his volumes. A great man, a great book!
Description: Excellent condition with the obvious exception of the lack of a dust cover.