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出版社 ‏ : ‎ Harry N. Abrams; New版 (1998/9/1)
発売日 ‏ : ‎ 1998/9/1
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 144ページ
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810981858
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810981850
寸法 ‏ : ‎ 29.85 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm

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I bought this book because I'd had a glimpse of it elsewhere some time ago. Both the photographs and the text stuck in my mind for a long time and I thought, why not have your own copy? I tracked this one down on Amazon. The cover is a bit tatty, but the condition of the book proved sound enough when it arrived.

The photographs are quite brilliantly, if deliberately posed, all with a spectacular use of lighting. Their composition reminded me of the Film Noir series of mainly crime movies which came out of Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s. In other words, the photographs are very dramatic. As well as the photographs of those giant Norfolk and Western locomotives, there are many photographs of men at work on the N&W system: engine crews, signalmen, a lamp room and, perhaps the most original of all, a picture set in a comfortable looking living room with a family at home in the evening with children and pets on the rug by the fireplace. Just beyond the window of this pleasant, well-lit domestic scene a N&W giant thunders past and into the night. There is a locomotive in every picture, either as the main subject in the foreground, or as a background to a human story. There are other remarkable scenes - swimmers in a river below a viaduct, a couple watching a movie from a car with a train in the mi-distance. Many of these pictures suggest work, or pleasure or romance. Film Noir was often shot at night (to save money, I'm told!) and the photographs in this book are all night scenes. O. Winston Link sometimes took all day to set up his lights and cameras.

The linking text is worthy of the photography: stories about the history of the N&W, stories of how the railway served the community and sick people and a pregnant woman were picked up and rescued by arrangement with the N&W. These were sometimes life-saving operations. Then the text abounds with the stories of the men who ran the railway from the very hands on manager to the grades who drove the locomotives, sold the tickets, kept the lamps lit and, as a team, ran the railway.

Steam, Steel & Stars must be one of the greatest stories about a railway, if not the greatest.

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My grandfather was a conductor on the N&W railroad before I was born. I lived a block away from an N&W mainline track and remember the steam trains that passed by when I was very young. Because of that background, I wanted this book to supplement all those fond memories. It did not disappoint!

The artwork (photographs) were reproduced well and the text describes not only historical aspects of the photographs, but, also, documents the railroad workers' lives -- those who maintained and ran the big iron horses. Many of the photographs are well known because of the technology that O. Winston Link used. The large strob lights that almost lit up the night (and the subjects) to daylight brightness was a hallmark of Link's. Very impressive!

If you are in to N&W steam history, or just steam locomotion history, in general, this is a book you want in your library. There is a companion book about the last steam trains in America that I would recommend, also.

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Steam, Steel, & Stars America’s Last Steam Railroad, is a great read and the pictures are great.

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I bought a second copy of "Steam, Steel and Stars" as a present, and at that point realised it is now out of print. It's magic stuff, so if you don't have a copy, get on and buy one now. The prices will go up, and the availability of mint-condition copies will go down.
It's hard to think of a photographer who captured as skilfully as Winston Link the technical detail of the railway and, at the same time, its social setting. His shots of locomotives and trains, in the dark, brilliantly lit by immense arrays of flashbulbs, are staggeringly good, but so too are the many ways in which he includes the people, the families, and the towns connected to the life of the railway. Unforgettable is his shot, taken from within a 1950s living room, complete with dog asleep on the floor and the lady of the house knitting, of a huge freight train rattling by outside the window.
If the book has any fault at all, it's the ugly typesetting for the otherwise excellent narrative that goes with the pictures. Surely there was no need to make it so thick and bold? But a small fault in context. Don't let it put you off.

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Excellent copy of this book!

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Marvellous Noir Photography: Superb Text

Nice N&W book

A great book to read

The best of all railway photography books?

Book condition was as described