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The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jim Shaughnessy, Jeff Brouws
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 5562
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 11 x 0.9
ISBN: 0393065928
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.9385
EAN: 9780393065923
ASIN: 0393065928
Publication Date: November 17, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Product Description
Jim Shaughnessy is a revered name among railway photographers. This collection, the best of his work over a forty-year career, features photographs taken between 1946 and 1988, with an emphasis on the American railroad culture of the fifties and sixties. Jeff Brouws - a railway authority and photo historian - has contributed a biographical essay that traces Shaughnessy's beginnings photographing steam locomotives in 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 railway 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, station yards and more. It is a wonderful document of what is arguably railroading's most compelling era.
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Eastern Steinheimer? November 18, 2008
Having a copy of 'a passion for trains' by the same author, i had no hesitation in buying another one of Jeff Brouws books. I wasnt at all disapointed as the content and reproduction are of the same high standard.
It was also refreshing to have an 'eastern' vision of what i would call North Americas finest railroading period, that of late steam to early diesel. Mr Shaughnessy shows that his work is up there with the very best of the American artists (as thats what they are) when it comes to composition, balance, lighting and human interest. He has also mastered the difficult craft of night lighting and shows the magic of the B&W medium to the maximum. Buy this book (along with 'a passion for trains). You will cherish them. And to Mr Brouws - Great job, i eagerly await books on Kistler, and Kindig, before too long.
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