Ashley Webb will present Take an in-depth and behind-the-scenes look
into technical aspects of several photographs of O. Winston Link, 1950s
railroad photographer, who iconically captured the last of the steam trains in
America, set against the backdrop of rural Virginia. This lecture will
highlight the notebooks, letters, and installation images of some of the
photographer's more iconic and technologically involved works.
The O. Winston Link Museum collection comprises the striking photographic and auditory works developed by photographer- artist O. Winston Link between 1955 and 1960. A successful commercial photographer from New York, Link brought his studio outdoors to create carefully arranged images designed to convey the end of the steam propelled Norfolk & Western Railway and the communities and countryside along the right of way. Covering much of Western Virginia and bordering portions of North Carolina, West Virginia and Maryland, Link took advantage of the region's then unique combination of mountainous terrain, sparsely arranged populations and steam rail infrastructure to capture the end of America's once thriving industrial age.
Roanoke,
Virginia, the museum is the repository for all of O. Winston Link's Norfolk
& Western negatives and contains both rotating and permanent exhibitions.
Ashley Webb on O. Winston Link Photos
