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To the true rail fan, Richard Steinheimer is an authentic hero, the
best of the best. This, the first full-length celebration of his
work, presents 160 of his duotone images, with an introduction by
Jeff Brouws. A pioneer in train photography, Steinheimer lived
through and documented the railroad's heyday and its decline. He is
one of very few photographers who appreciate the aesthetics of all
locomotives, from steam engines to the latest diesel-powered
behemoths. He has a particular fondness for the landscape of the
American West, and many of his images situate trains in the larger
geography and culture of the time. Known for taking pictures at
night, in bad weather, and from risky perches on top of moving
train platforms, Steinheimer has an enormous creativity and
productivity.
Riffs, revisions, knockoffs, and homages: artists pay tribute to Ed
Ruscha's famous photo-conceptual small books. In the 1960s and
1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small
photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations,
Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour
Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees.
Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with
idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought
after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists.
Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that
appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout
the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects,
showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a
description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's
books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These
small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form,
content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour
Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation:
Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various
Small Fires, with a glass of milk), Twentynine Palms (twenty-nine
photographs of palm-readers' signs). Some say something different:
None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip. Some reach for a connection
with Ruscha himself: 17 Parked Cars in Various Parking Lots Along
Pacific Coast Highway Between My House and Ed Ruscha's. With his
books, Ruscha expanded the artist's field of permissible subjects,
approaches, and methods. With VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS, various artists
pay tribute to Ed Ruscha and extend the legacy of his books.
Steam Odyssey: The Railroad Photographs of Victor Hand is the
latest in our celebrated publications on railroad photography.
Unlike previous volumes, this book has an international bent: Hand
has taken photographs in more than fifty countries over the past
fifty-five years. These 162 black-and-white photographs present a
sampling of his best work from around the world and show how the
railway is a compelling subject no matter the locale. An
introduction by well-known transportation reporter and railroad
columnist Don Phillips explains how Hand got interested in railways
and how his approach to the subject developed; extended captions
provide historical context. The book includes an afterword by rail
and photography historian Jeff Brouws.
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."
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