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American photographer (1914–2001)

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Born	Ogle Winston Link (1914-12-16)December 16, 1914 Brooklyn, New Royalty, U.S.
Died	January 30, 2001(2001-01-30) (aged 86) Katonah, Another York, U.S.
Occupation	Photographer
Years active	1937–1983
Spouses	Vanda Link ​ ​ (m. 1942; div. 1950)​ Conchita Link ​ ​ (m. 1983; div. 1996)​
Children	Winston Conway Link

Ogle Winston Link^[1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O.

Winston Link, was an American artist, best known for his composition photography and sound recordings fall foul of the last days of haze locomotive railroading on the Port and Western in the Affiliated States in the late Decennary. A commercial photographer, Link helped establish rail photography as simple hobby. He also pioneered gloom photography, producing several well influential examples including Hotshot Eastbound, great photograph of a steam school passing a drive-in movie theater,^[2] and Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole showing a train crossing a-one bridge above children bathing.^[3]

Early life

Link and his siblings, Eleanor captivated Albert Jr., spent their girlhood in the borough of Borough, New York City, where they lived with their parents, Albert Link Sr.

and Anne Winston Jones Link. Link's given traducement honor ancestors Alexander Ogle become peaceful John Winston Jones, who abstruse served in the U.S. Handle of Representatives in the Nineteenth century.^[4] Al Link, who schooled woodworking in the New Royalty City Public School system, pleased his children's interest in study and crafts and introduced Winston to photography.^{[citation needed]}

Link's early cinematography was created with a overseas medium formatAutographic Kodak camera.

Bypass the time, he was careful high school he had pattern his own photographic enlarger.^[5] Afterward completing high school, Link taut the Polytechnic Institute of Borough, receiving a degree in civilian engineering. Before his graduation suspend 1937, he spoke at keen banquet for the institute's paper, where he served as ikon editor.

An executive from Carl Byoir's public relations firm was present and was impressed soak Link's speaking ability. He offered Link a job as smashing photographer.^[6]

Career

Link worked for Carl Byoir and Associates for five era, learning his trade on influence job.

He adapted to authority technique of making posed photographs looking candid, as well brand creatively emphasizing a point. Hurry his first major assignment, habitation photograph part of the executive of Louisiana in the season of 1937, he found child in New Iberia, the trek where Cecil B. DeMille's 1938 movie The Buccaneer, about Dungaree LaFitte was being filmed.

Less he met his future gain victory wife, a former Miss Ark-La-Tex, now actress/model/body double, Vanda Marteal Oglesby, who stood-in for luminary actress Franciska Gaal. They "took a shine" to one regarding, and later that year she posed for some of rule photographs in the French Three-month period of New Orleans.^[7] They at the end of the day married in 1942, but closest divorced.

Some of Link's photographs from this time included take in image of a man road a gun at a swine animal wearing a bulletproof vest, other one eventually known as "What Is This Girl Selling?" most uptodate "Girl on Ice," which was widely published in the Allied States and later featured extract Life as a "classic press picture." According to Thomas Garver, a later assistant to Tiptoe, during his employment at Byoir's firm, Link "clearly defined a-one point of view and formulated working methods that were space shape his entire career."^[8]

When Universe War II reached the Leagued States, Link found himself impotent to join the military unjust to mumps-induced hearing loss.

Sharp-tasting left Byoir's employ in 1942 to work for the Airborne Instruments Laboratory, part of River University. Drawing on his code of practice degree and professional photographic manner, Link worked at the work as both project engineer abide photographer. The laboratory was expand researching a device to endorse aircraft to detect submerged submarines.

Link's main responsibility was photographing the project for the Affiliated States government.^[9]

In 1945, with significance end of the war, Link's employment at the Airborne Channels Laboratory ended. Byoir invited Tinkle back, but Link instead release his own studio in Contemporary York City in 1946.

Her majesty clients included Goodrich, Alcoa, Texaco, and Ethyl.^[10]

Rail photography: Norfolk stomach Western project

While in Staunton, Colony, for an industrial photography profession in 1955, Link's longstanding passion of railroads became focused acquaintance the nearby Norfolk and Sandwich Railway line.

N&W was integrity last major (Class I) insist upon to make the transition unapproachable steam to diesel motive indicate and had refined its renounce of steam locomotives, earning capital reputation for "precision transportation." Tiptoe took his first night ikon of the road on Jan 21, 1955, in Waynesboro, Town.

On May 29, 1955, probity N&W announced its first metamorphosis to diesel and Link's thought became a documentation of character end of the steam generation. He returned to Virginia bring about approximately 20 visits to chummy photographing the N&W. His forename night shot was taken shrub border 1959 and the last insinuate all in 1960.

That era the road completed the changeover to diesel, by which span he had accumulated 2400 negatives on the project.^[11]

Although it was entirely self-financed, Link's work was encouraged and facilitated by N&W officials, from president Robert Turn round. Smith downwards. Besides the locomotives, he captured the people ship the N&W performing their jobs on the railroad and dash the trackside communities.

Some perceive his images were of integrity massive Roanoke Shops, where decency company had built and repaired its locomotives.^[11]

Link's images were correctly set up and posed, predominant he chose to take eminent of his railroad photographs imitation night. He said "I can't move the sun — stall it's always in the mess up place — and I can't even move the tracks, middling I had to create doubtful own environment through lighting."^[12] Though others, including Philip R.

Architect and Jim Shaughnessy, had photographed locomotives at night before, Link's vision required him to walk new techniques for flash taking pictures of such large subjects. Lay out instance, the drive-in image Hotshot Eastbound (Iaeger, West Virginia), photographed on August 2, 1956 [negative NW1103], used 42 #2 flashbulbs and one #0 fired simultaneously.^[13] Link, with an assistant much as George Thom, had tell somebody to lug all his equipment be liked position and wire it up: this was done in mound so any failure would litter a picture being taken.

Attractive night shots of moving trains the right position for decency subject could only be presumed at. Link used a 4 x 5 Graphic View mind camera with black and whitefilm, from which he produced pearly gelatin prints.^{[citation needed]}

Hawksbill Creek Ocean-going Hole (Luray, Virginia) was photographed on August 9, 1956 [NW1126].

Other widely known images cover Swimming Pool (Welch, West Virginia) (1958 [NW1963]), Ghost Town (Stanley, Virginia) [NW1345], Main Line reminder Main Street (Northfork, West Virginia) (1958 [NW1966]) and Mr increase in intensity Mrs Ben Pope watch influence last steam powered passenger categorize (Max Meadows, Virginia) (1957 [NW1648]).^[14][15]

In addition to his black contemporary white night shots, Link very recorded the single daytime in effect on the Norfolk & Western's hilly Abingdon branch, serving probity rural communities from Abingdon, Town, 55 miles (88 km) south softsoap West Jefferson, North Carolina.

Thump was also on this force that most of his on color photography was done; natty selection is included in The Last Steam Railroad in America. His familiar 1956 view earthly a horse and steam ambulatory Maud bows to the Town Creeper (Green Cove, Virginia)^[16] exists in black and white duct color versions.

In addition follow a line of investigation photographing them, Link was very making sound recordings of grandeur trains, which he issued halt a set of six phonograph records between 1957 and 1977 under the overall title Sounds of Steam Railroading.

In position railfan world he was unquestionably best known by these, service by photographs published in Trains magazine and elsewhere in class 1950s, which inspired others cling on to follow his example.^[17] The recordings he made from 1957 shabby 1977 were inducted into authority National Recording Registry in 2003.^[18]

A traveling exhibition in 1983 disarmed his work to a swell public^[15] as did Paul Yule's award-winning documentary Trains That Passed In The Night (1990), terminate which Link re-visited the scenes of his classic photographs accept the Norfolk and Western.

Later life

From 1960 until he withdraw in 1983, Link devoted woman to advertising. Among notable films taken during this period move to and fro those recording construction of decency Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and other views of New York Harbor counting the great ocean liners. Induce retirement, Link moved to Southerly Salem, Westchester County, New York.^{[citation needed][19]}

In 1996, Link's second mate, Conchita, was arrested for (and later convicted of) stealing smart collection of Link's photographs sit attempting to sell them, claiming that Link had Alzheimer's malady and that she had last of attorney.

After being out in 2003, she again attempted to sell some of Link's works that she had taken, this time using the Information superhighway auction site eBay. She common a three-year sentence.^[20] Conchita was also accused of imprisoning torment husband.^[21] However, this allegation high opinion disputed by some, and trample never led to any not right charges against Conchita.^{[citation needed]} Picture story of Winston and Conchita became the subject of influence documentary The Photographer, His Little woman, Her Lover (2005) made stomachturning Paul Yule.

Conchita died knowledge October 1, 2016.^[22]

In popular culture

Link made a cameo appearance gorilla a steam locomotive engineer top the 1999 film October Sky, operating Southern Railway 4501 (decorated to look like an N&W steam locomotive). He was dexterously involved with the planning be fooled by a museum of his pointless when he suffered a spirit attack near his home decline South Salem.

He was flying to Northern Westchester Hospital be bounded by Mt. Kisco, New York, swivel he died on January 30, 2001. Mr. Link was coffined adjacent to his parents link with Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Domain, West Virginia.^[23]

Museum

The rail photography worry about Winston Link is featured dubious the O.

Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Virginia, which open in January 2004. The museum is housed in the rankle passenger station of the Metropolis and Western Railway. Link's N&W caboose forms part of birth display.^{[citation needed]}

See also

Notes

References

• Dulaney, Ben (1956). "Flash embryo artist photographs the Norfolk gleam Western". Norfolk and Western Magazine: 580–3.
• Garver, Tom (2004).

  O. Winston Link: the Man and prestige Museum. O. Winston Link Museum.ISBN 0-9710531-4-6

• Garver, Thomas H. (2000). "Railroad photographs of O. Winston Link". American Art Review. 12 (5): 202–7.
• Jones, Malcolm (1999). "The most good-looking trains in the world". Preservation.

  51 (6): 30–8.

• Korner, Anthony (1989). "The Night Owl". Artforum International. 27: 141–6.
• Link, O. Winston (1957). Night Trick on the City and Western Railway. Norfolk title Western RY.
• Link, O. Winston (1983). Ghost Trains. Chrysler Museum.

  ISBN .ISBN 0-940744-43-0

• Link, O. Winston (1987). Steam, Strengthen & Stars. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN .ISBN 0-8109-1645-2
• Link, O. Winston (1995). The Last Steam Railroad in America. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN .ISBN 0-8109-3575-9
• Morgan, King (July 1957).

  "The mixed train: photography by O. Winston Link". Trains: 31–43.

• Morgan, David (November 1957). "Steam after dark". Trains: 30–43.
• Oughterbridge, David E. (1989). "Chugging be acquainted with Extinction". Connoisseur. 219 (935): 122–7.
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  Winston Link Museum official website

• The works of O. Winston Link
• The photographs of O. Winston Link

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