The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs of Jim Shaughnessy | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jim Shaughnessy, Jeff Brouws
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
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Sales Rank: 236717
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0393065928
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.9385
EAN: 9780393065923
ASIN: 0393065928
Publication Date: November 3, 2008 (In 74 Days)
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Product Description
A majestic collection celebrating the life and work of one of the deans of railroad photography.
Jim Shaughnessy is a revered name among railroad photographers. This collection, the best of his work over a forty-year career, features 170 duotone photographs taken between 1946 and 1988, with an emphasis on the railroad culture of the fifties and sixties. Jeff Brouws—a railroad authority and photo historian—has contributed a biographical essay that traces Shaughnessy's beginnings photographing steam locomotives in his hometown of 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 railroad 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, yard stations, and more. It is a wonderful document of what is arguably railroading's most compelling era. 170 duotone photographs.
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