Highlights
"Conversations" Conference
Photo by Henry Koshollek, M.A.
The Center's eighth "Conversations About Photography" conference will be held April 23-25, 2010, in Lake Forest, Illinois. Photos of the 2009 conference are on the conference page.
Railroad Heritage 22
Railroad Heritage no. 22 showcases the winners of the annual Creative Photography Award and begins a series, “Faces of Railroading,” about Jack Delano and his portraits of people and railroads in preparation for an exhibition in Chicago. Other highlights of the journal include stories about the Center’s 2009 activities, the 2010 “Conversations about Photography” conference, and profiles of photographer Frank Barry and the designer of the Southern Pacific’s 1937 Daylight passenger train. Receive your copy of Railroad Heritage with your gift/subscription today.
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Events
Send us information about art/photo events for listing here. Before traveling, confirm dates and times. For details about Center exhibits, see Exhibits.
The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy
Photo by Jim Shaughnessy
Reopens February 15 at the O. Winston Link Museum, 101 Shenandoah Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia, co-sponsored by the Center. Jim Shaughnessy is a revered name among railroad photographers. He started out in the late 1940s photographing steam locomotives in his hometown of Troy, New York, and moved on to documenting the dramatic steam-to-diesel transition. His emphasis has always been on the northeastern United States and Canada, where railroad action and often-deep snow are plentiful. Best known for his early night photography and images of railroad workers, shops and roundhouses, Shaughnessy is still taking photographs today. Presented the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's lifetime achievement award for photography in 1987, his work has recently been in the spotlight because of a new book featuring the same title as this exhibition.
The Rail Splitter and the Railroads: Lincoln, the Union, and the Golden State
Through Feburary 2010, California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California. An exhibit on Abraham Lincoln's involvement with the railroad, including a lecture by Peter A. Hansen.
Winterail 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., Stockton, California. 32nd Railroad Photography Exposition and Railroadiana Show. Information: Winterail 2010, P.O. Box 1627, San Leandro California 94577.
O. Winston Link Museum
A permanent collection of Link's photographs is in the renovated Norfolk & Western passenger station in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. The 15,000 square-foot museum bearing his name includes 190 signed prints, 85 estate prints, and all 2,400 of Link's negatives. Museum is at 101 Shenandoah Aveue. Hours 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, Monday-Saturday, Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
A Day on the Abingdon Branch: The Photography of O. Winston Link, 1955 -1957
Abingdon Train Station, home of the Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia, 306 Depot Square, Abingdon, Virginia. Images never before exhibited as well as a selection of favorites such as "Old Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper" are included. More than three dozen black and white images comprise the William King Regional Arts Center's permanent collection of Link photographs. About one-half of the collection will be on view on a rotating basis. Hours are 10-4 Monday through Friday, and 10-2 the first and third Saturday of each month. Admission is free.