O. Winston Link: Life Along The Line

Product Description

O. Winston Link is Americas most celebrated railroad photographer. Link began photographing the Norfolk & Western the last major steam railroad in the United States in the mid 1950s when the N&W was converting its operations from steam to diesel. Links N&W project captured the railroad industry at a moment of transition before the triumph of the automobile & the airplane that ended passenger service on the line & before the corresponding dramatic reduction in the workforce. & just as importantly Links work reveals a small town way of life that was about to experience seismic shifts & in many cases vanish completely. The images in O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line focus on the people & communities surrounding the railroad in particular recording life in the Appalachian portion of the Norfolk & Westerns service area. The book is published in cooperation with the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke Virginia which holds the complete archive of Links N&W project. It replaces two previous Abrams books on Link Steam Steel & Stars & The Last Steam Railroad in America. O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line offers a broad view of the entire range of Links portfolio of the last years of the Norfolk & Western in steam including excellent examples of both the keystone work & of the photographs such as modernist images that have not been previously published.