A Passion for Trains, 1.0st Edition
The Railroad Photography of Richard Steinheimer
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2010
Summary
To the true rail fan, Richard Steinheimer is an authentic hero, the best of the best. A pioneer in train photography, Steinheimer lived through and documented the railroad’s heyday and its decline. He is one of very few photographers who appreciate the aesthetics of all locomotives, from steam engines to the latest diesel-powered behemoths. He has a particular fondness for the landscape of the American West, and many of his images situate trains in the larger geography and culture of the time…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393057430 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393057437 |
| Author: | Richard Steinheimer, Jeff Brouws |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 1.0st |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 1.66kg |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 307mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Richard Steinheimer
Richard Steinheimer is a master of American railroad photography. His work has been published in Trains, Railfan, Locomotive and Railway Preservation, and Vintage Rail, and more than seventy books. He lives in Sacramento, California.
Jeff Brouws is a fine art photographer and part-time writer who has nine books to his credit, authoring five on railroad photography alone. He has been published in Trains, the NRHS Bulletin and the R&LHS Quarterly. A book of his own photographs, Approaching Nowhere was published in 2006. His photographs can be found in major institutional collections around the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Harvard’s Fogg Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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