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built a comprehensive portrait of small- town America in the 1950’s far beyond the staged night time photos for which he is best known. Several portraits, in particular including Plate 18, a lit por- trait of an employee with an Alemite grease gun, and Plate 12, a more candid portrait of an engineer and firemen in front of their locomotive, are the types of photos one can return to time and again, finding a new details or nuances in the subjects’ expression each time. Taken together, his work is a compre- hensive portrait of a time of great tran- sition in the small towns along the lines radiating out from Roanoke into Vir- ginia, West Virginia, and North Caroli- na. Steam locomotives about to go cold, employees doing jobs that were about to vanish, towns no longer found on any map–these were all part of the disap- pearing way of life so diligently and car- ingly portrayed in these photos. While the photographs are of course


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the main focus, the book also includes a foreword by Scott Lothes, executive di- rector of the Center for Railroad Pho- tography and Art, a thorough introduc- tion by author and railroad historian Tony Reevy, and an afterword by O. Winston Link’s son Conway Link. Also included with the book is a 50 minute audio CD of unreleased recordings made on the N&W by Link during this time. There are 21 cuts and on some of these Link can be heard talking with employees as they go about their work. Lothes’ foreword discusses the legacy of Link and his place among the other notable railroad photographers of the 20th century, as well as how the rail- road and Link’s photographs became an important part of Appalachia. The in- troduction by Reevy briefly recounts the


railroad environment of the 1950’s as steam transitioned to diesel. It also touches on the early life of O. Winston Link, and how Link got his start as an advertising photographer. Several com- mercial photographs shot by Link are included in this section, providing a unique look into his early career and aesthetic. The introduction then covers Link’s transition into a freelance pho- tographer, and the fortuitous assign- ment that brought him to Waynesboro, Virginia, in January 1955 where he first envisioned a personal photographic project documenting the railroad at night with a commercial photographer’s sensibilities. Included is an excerpt from Link’s letter to the N&W public re- lations department proposing the proj- ect and the details of its progression over the next five years, including both his photography and audio recording endeavors. Reevy goes on to chronicle Link’s “journey to fame” as his photo- graphs gained notoriety in the art world, the founding of the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Virginia, and, finally, his influences among and impact on the world of photography. The reproduction of the photographs is


excellent overall, with outstanding con- trast and clarity, and the large print sizes help the images come to life. Detailed captions place each photograph geo- graphically, chronologically, and in rela- tion to other photographs in the book, adding to the cohesiveness of the collec- tion. Many of Link’s more famous images are posed night shots and they are well represented here, but this collection also shows just how talented Link also was as a “railfan” photographer, taking stun- ning environmental portraits of the rail- road, especially along the N&W’s Abing-


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