The Call of Trains - Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy (Hardcover)

Jim Shaughnessy is a revered name among railroad photographers. This collection, the best of his work over a forty-year career, features 170 duotone photographs taken between 1946 and 1988, with an emphasis on the railroad culture of the fifties and sixties. Jeff Brouws a railroad authority and photo historian has contributed a biographical essay that traces Shaughnessy's beginnings photographing steam locomotives in his hometown of Troy, New York, to his documentation of the dramatic steam-to-diesel transition, with an emphasis on the northeastern United States and Canada, where the concentration of railroad action and often deep snow resulted in beautiful and unusual images. Not just a compendium of photographs of locomotives, this book covers the whole railroad world the sheds, tunnels, viaducts, yard stations, and more. It is a wonderful document of what is arguably railroading's most compelling era."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	November 2008
Photographers:	Jim Shaughnessy
Text writers:	Jeff Brouws
Dimensions:	282 x 310 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-06592-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Individual photographers Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Trains & railways: general interest Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General
LSN:	0-393-06592-8
Barcode:	9780393065923

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