Let’s Talk Photography Ep.91 – Bart Busschots on O. Winston Link 2

Panel

• Bart Busschots (host) – @bbusschots – Flickr
• Antonio Rosario from the Street Shots Podcast & The Unusual Collective – @amrosario – Flickr

This month Antonio turns the tables on Bart, interviewing him about one if his favourite photographers, O. Winston Link. Link was a commercial professional commercial photographer by day, but a dedicated amateur railway photographer by night (literally!).

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Show Notes

Links

• O. Winston Link’s Wikipedia Page
• The book Bart got for his birthday — Steam, Steel and Stars: America’s Last Steam Railroad

Favourite Quotation

“I can’t move the sun — and it’s always in the wrong place — and I can’t even move the tracks, so I had to create my own environment through lighting”

— O. Winston Link

Notable Photographs

• Dalhouse Cleans Headlight, Close Up (1950)
• Troy Humphries Check Trains Through Cracked Glass Window (1955)
• Norfolk and Western Train No. 2 (1955)
• O. Winston Link Self Portrait (1956)
• Hot Shot Eastbound at the laeger Drive-in (1956)
• Vesuvius Amoco (1956)
• Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole (1956)
• Main Line on Main Street (1956)
• Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper — a daytime shot! (1956)
• General Store at Husk, NC with Train 202 — Colour in the daytime!(1956)
• Hotshot Eastbound (1957)
• Midnight Special (1957)
• Last Steam Locomotive Run on Norfolk and Western (1957)
• Ghost Town (1957)
• Swimming Pool (1958)
• Highball for the Double Header — Colour! (1959)

‘Trains that Passed in the Night’ (Documentary, 1990)