Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat, Virginia
Artist: Ogle Winston Link (American, 1914-2001)
Date: 1957(negative), 1984 (print)
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Medium: Gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1985.24
Label Text:O. (Ogle) Winston Link was a commercial photographer and life-long train buff. From 1953 to 1960, Link made more than 2,200 photographs of steam engine-driven passenger and freight trains of the Norfolk & Western Railway system. Most of the images were made in small towns and rural sites in Virginia at night using a complex array of synchronized flash lighting banks. His photographs are deservedly admired for their technical expertise; for the dramatic nighttime lighting that makes the images seem like surreal stills from a Hollywood film; and for their devotion to the now vanished steam engines that once dominated train travel in this country.
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