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Call of Trains, The By Jim Shaughnessy & Jeff Brouws Railroad Photography w/ DJ
The Call of Trains Railroad Photography Jim Shaughnessy & text by Jeff Brouws
Hard cover with dust jacket Front page has a library sticker. Back dust jacket edge has been rolled over.
Copyright 2008 FIRST EDITION
224 pages
JIM SHAUGHNESSY is one of the most revered names in railroad photography, yet until now there has not been a monograph devoted solely to his work. Photo-historian and railroad enthusiast Jeff Brouws (A Passion for Trains) has worked closely with Shaughnessy to select 170 evocative photographs from his sixty-year career to create
The Call of Trains-the first comprehensive overview of his life and work.
Shaughnessy began photographing steam locomotives in his hometown of Troy, New York, in 1946. Over the next decade-and-a-half he made numerous trips in pursuit of steam throughout the eastern United States, the far West, the Canadian provinces, and Mexico. He would go on to document the dramatic steam-to-diesel transition, capturing the trains, depots, workers, roundhouses, and back shops that made up the American railroad landscape. In later decades he faithfully recorded the changing fortunes of railroading in the Northeast as merger and contraction affected the industry. He is still actively photographing the railroad scene in 2008.
The distinct beauty of Shaughnessy's images is due in part to his break with traditional pictorial devices and the development of specialized techniques, including the time exposure and nighttime open-flash images that would set his work apart. Brouws has contributed a biographical essay that traces Shaughnessy's career and his contribution to the aesthetic development of railroad photography in America in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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