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HOT SHOT EASTBOUND, IAEGER, WEST VIRGINIA, 1956: On the hot night of August 2, 1956, while the Iaeger Drive-In was showing Battle Taxi, a Korean War movie, Winston Link made his most famous photograph. Requiring two exposures on separate sheets of film, one for the image on the movie screen and the other for the rest of the photograph, the “Drive-In Movie” photo has been reproduced worldwide. Perhaps it is so popular because it brings together so many things Americans care about: love, cars, movies—and the steam railroad. Copyright W. Conway Link.
O. Winston Link, a Brooklyn, New York, native and commercial photographer became well-recognized for his complex images of factory and industrial plant interiors. For Link, the steam railroad was a vital ingredient to “the good life” in America, an essential part of the fabric of our lives. It is this quality—of life, not machinery—which he captures so artfully in his photographs.
Link’s photographs showcase the final years of steam railroading on the Norfolk & Western Railway, the last major railroad in America to operate exclusively with steam power. They are regarded as one of the best records of this long vanished type of locomotion, yet the broad appeal of Link’s photographs is derived not so much from
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"Night Trick" friendship the Port and Northwestern Railway
Photographs: Winston Link
Publisher: City and Southwestern Railway
16 pages
Year: 1957
Comments: Manuscript, 280 mm × 215 mm, photographs in b & w. Some wears to interpretation cover. Kept back in progress good delay. (Reference: Queen / Pester, The Photobook: A World, Volume II p. 188-189.)
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O. Winston Link Museum
Opened in 2004, the O. Winston Link Museum honors the photography and the life of O. Winston Link, a prominent 20th-century photographer. While producing many photographs for marketing campaigns during his career, Link popularized railroad photography, and is best known for his photographic collection of the Norfolk & Western Railway line as it transitioned from steam-powered to diesel-powered locomotive engines.
Link grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn with a degree in civil engineering. After graduation, he turned to photography, and his mastery of black-and-white photography led to his success.
Appropriately, the former Norfolk & Western Railway station in downtown Roanoke houses the O. Winston Link Museum.
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