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Re: O Winston Link passed away
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:12:21 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Lill writes:
> In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
> > Most famous for his photography of the N&W railway, along with sound recordings
> > of the same, O Winston Link has passed away.
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> > (for those of you who don't know about him, he took flash photographs at night
> > of railway scenes. For these photographs, 150+ flash bulbs would be triggered
> > at once. This allowed great control and stop motion to be acchieved)
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> > James
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> This is quite a shame as he was a remarkable photographer. Recently in some
> magazine (the New Yorker?, Vanity Fair?) there was an article about the
> surprising number of great 20th century photographers who are still alive
> though quite advanced in age and Link certainly had a pride of place. At
> least we still have the photos.
I can scan some of Link's photos if anyone would like, they are in some
model railroad magazines. I think he only too B&W's too.
Josh
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> Jonathan
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| (...) Nope. He did take some colour photos. However, the vast majority of the night photographs are black and white photographs. I think that you probably shouldn't go wildly scanning in his images, because people get mad when you go doing that (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) This is quite a shame as he was a remarkable photographer. Recently in some magazine (the New Yorker?, Vanity Fair?) there was an article about the surprising number of great 20th century photographers who are still alive though quite advanced (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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