O. Winston Link

O. Winston Link

One of the Photographers I looked at was O. Winston Link, an American photographer. He worked mostly in the late 1950s for which most of his photographs are known; he worked at the end of the steam railway age. He worked only in black and white. The use of black and white in his work adds age to work and makes it easier to known when they were taken, his use of technology such as trains also add a romantic age to them. In one photograph the Hotshot Eastbound he uses three forms of transport, the cars, the plane and the train. This is very good as he has been able to get them all on at the same time almost unrealistic. In one of the cars is a couple watching a movie (foreground), the cars are heading off the photograph with the eye being lead that way, but the plane leads the eye to the left on the movie screen which points to the train also going of the image. This photograph looks very complicated to get right; it looks like it is staged. The photograph is very well done and must have taken a lot of planning to get right. I like this photograph as it looks almost unreal and is focused on a man-made subject matter. There is chilling feeling to this photograph; the usage of the train feels out of date with its steam which really make the picture interesting took at.