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Re: O Winston Link passed away
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:21:34 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Kai Brodersen writes:
> I dont know for sure but didnt Winston pass away a long time ago. In MR
> there was an article about him in '98 and said he had died.
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Nope, just this week. The New York Times posted the obituary today. It also
retreads the marital problems he had late in life where he married and
divorced a woman fifty years younger than him. He sued her saying that she
essentially locked him in his darkroom to make prints and stole huge amounts
of his negatives and prints most of which have never been recovered and
stole most of the money he was making off of his photos. The lady is now in
jail for a long time. A sad end to his life.
As far as I know there are two books dedicated to his photos. The one
mentioned above I do not have. The other one I own and I think it is titled
"Steam, Steel and Stars" and is a good cheap paperback overview of his
career. See:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/105-8380270-1307945
Jonathan
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| I dont know for sure but didnt Winston pass away a long time ago. In MR there was an article about him in '98 and said he had died. (...) I dont think so, on my latest trip to Alaska we stopped at Skagway (where the yukon gold rush was started) And (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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