Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat, Virginia

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Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat, Virginia

Artist Ogle Winston Link (American, 1914-2001)

Date1957(negative), 1984 (print)

DimensionsOverall: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

MediumGelatin-silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1985.24

Not on View

Label TextO. (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.Exhibition HistoryTMA, Jan 22 - June 8, 1999 Images From America Sept./Oct. 1995 Buildings Real and Ideal: Nov. 15, 2007 - Jan 27, 2008. Toledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.