19O. Winston Link
Photographer’s Forum, February 1996
It is through O. Winston Link’s vision, talent, and romantic obsession with steam trains that we have such a splendid photographic record of the age of steam and the life and times of the towns and people who lived along the Norfolk and Western (N&W) Railroad and its right of way.
Link (1914–2001) studied civil engineering at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was an honor student and president of his class. During World War II he worked at Airborne Instruments Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y., and while there Link continued to develop his photographic skills and precision lighting techniques that became so much a part of his later photography. After the war he opened his ...
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