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
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Remembering Steam Locomotives, by Frank Barry
Photo by Frank Barry
June 3 through August 29. The Valley Railroad Company, One Railroad Avenue, Essex, Connecticut. 26 silver gelatin prints on archival paper featuring steam locomotives in the United States, Canada and Mexico between 1955 and 1985. The locomotives and the men who ran and cared for them are portrayed along the railroad line, in the roundhouse and in the repair shop, portraying the essence of these majestic machines. Frank Barry, of Groton, New York, was born in 1937 and began photographing steam locomotives when he was just 9 years old. He has traveled in 20 countries on 4 continents to record steam engines on film. His photographs and articles have been published in over 50 books, magazines and newspapers. Barry made a presentation about his photography and travels at the Center's 2010 “Conversations about Photography” conference, and a selection of his work is on railroadheritage.org.
Images: Selected photographs of John Fasulo
Photo by John Fasulo
May 28 through June 28 with an opening on May 28 from 5 to 8 p.m. Cunneen Hackett Arts Center, Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, New York. John Fasulo, Beacon, New York, was a news cameraman for twenty-five years. His grandfather, a machinist for the New York Central at its shops in Harmon, New York, introduced John to photography and railroads, inspiring a lifelong passion for both. Fasulo has images in the permanent collection of the Mercantile Library of the University of Missouri; the German Railroad Museum in Nuremburg, Germany; as well as with the Center's railroadheritage.org pictorial site. His work has appeared in Trains magazine, Railroads Illustrated, Modell Eisenbahn magazine, The Cerise Press, Chronogram, and Hudson Valley magazine.
Steam In Appalachia: Trainscapes of Bill Price
Photo by Bill Price
June 4 through September 30. Berea College, Bruce Building Room 128, 205 North Main Street, Berea, Kentucky. 40-plus color photographs and film footage by the late railfan photographer Bill Price, whose work covers the 1930s to the 1960s in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Price's photos are characterized by the composition of beautiful landscapes that include steam trains. The latest printing technoloyg has allowed Price's Kodachrome transparencies to come alive, transporting the viewer back in time. His son, Thom, organized the show, which is also part of the L&N Day celebration on June 5 at the former Louisville & Nashville Railroad depot in Berea.
The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy
Photo by Jim Shaughnessy
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.
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.