The Railroad and the Art of Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Railroad and the Art of Place write by David Kahler. This book was released on 2016. The Railroad and the Art of Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 1980s, David Kahler was deeply inspired by seeing an exhibition of O. Winston Link photographs. He soon began making annual trips to the West Virginia and eastern Kentucky coalfields, destinations that strongly resonated with his own aesthetic of "place." Armed with a used Leica M6 and gritty Tri-X film, he and his wife made six week-long trips in the dead of winter to photograph trains along the Pocahontas Division of the Norfolk Southern Railway. Nearly one hundred images edited from this body of work form the core of The Railroad and the Art of Place, along with a selection of earlier Pennsylvania Railroad steam-era photographs that reflect Kahler's interest in the railroad landscape from an early age. Also included are three essays by Kahler, Scott Lothes, and Jeff Brouws, discussing the personal motivations, historical context, and aesthetic development behind the photography. With funding for printing provided by the Kahler Family Charitable Fund, all sales will go to support the Center's work.
The Railroad and the Art of Place: an Anthology
The Railroad and the Art of Place: an Anthology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Railroad and the Art of Place: an Anthology write by David Kahler. This book was released on 2021-10. The Railroad and the Art of Place: an Anthology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In "Railroads and the Art of Place: An Anthology," a team of thirty contemporary and historical photographers--whose work is displayed across eighteen portfolios--visually contemplate the visible and philosophical imprint of the railroad on the American landscape. Combined with lucid, literary essays by Kevin P. Keefe, former editor of Trains magazine, noted transportation historian Alexander B. Craghead, industrial historian Matt Kierstead, and the late Michael Flanagan (author of Stations: An Imaginary Journey) the book, conceived by David Kahler, is sure to set a new benchmark in the field of railroad photography and transportation studies. Produced to the highest standards and featuring 230 color and black-and-white photographs, this deluxe 372-page book printed on heavy stock portrays a storied industrial culture in an entirely new context. Produced by the Center for Railroad Photography & Art and generously funded by the Kahler Family Charitable Fund.
Through Darkness to Light
Through Darkness to Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Through Darkness to Light write by Jeanine Michna-Bales. This book was released on 2017-03-28. Through Darkness to Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
A Passion for Trains
A Passion for Trains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Passion for Trains write by Richard Steinheimer. This book was released on 2004. A Passion for Trains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lavishly photographed tribute to history's railroads covers everything from steam engines to the latest diesel-powered locomotives, canvassing 160 of the photographer's most significant train images as taken in front of western landscapes, in inclement weather, from risky vantage points, and more. First serial, Classic Trains.
Iron Muse
Iron Muse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iron Muse write by Glenn Willumson. This book was released on 2023-11-10. Iron Muse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The construction of the transcontinental railroad (1865–1869) marked a milestone in United States history, symbolizing both the joining of the country’s two coasts and the taming of its frontier wilderness by modern technology. But it was through the power of images—and especially the photograph—that the railroad attained its iconic status. Iron Muse provides a unique look at the production, distribution, and publication of images of the transcontinental railroad: from their use as an official record by the railroad corporations, to their reproduction in the illustrated press and travel guides, and finally to their adaptation to direct sales and albums in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tracing the complex relationships and occasional conflicts between photographer, publisher, and curator as they crafted the photographs’ different meanings over time, Willumson provides a comprehensive portrayal of the creation and evolution of an important slice of American visual culture.
