Author: Elrond Lawrence

$9.75 The cover story presents the winners of the Center’s second creative photography awards. There’s a gallery of images from the Conversations 2004 conference, an announcement of the Center’s updated website, and a gallery of black-and-white photography. Additional stories look at the Montana photography of Herman Schnitzmeyer, the silent film Great Train Robbery, and posters…

$9.75 The cover story recaps a conference presentation by John Gruber and David Plowden about “creative, almost forgotten photographers.” Gruber also presents a gallery of Leo King’s photographs of railroad workers and reports on the Center’s second Conversations conference. Author Anne M. Lyden interviews designer Phil Hamilton about her new book, Railroad Vision: Photography, Travel,…

$9.75 The cover story by Ted Benson showcases the remarkable photography, impact, and inspiration of Richard Steinheimer. John Gruber continues his coverage of William Henry Jackson’s photography with an article about his work in the eastern U.S. around the turn of the 20th century. Gruber also looks at the impact of posters on interurban passenger…

$9.75 The cover story announces a new photography exhibition project about railroad workers, with significant funding from the North American Railway Foundation. Editor John Gruber examines William Henry Jackson’s photography on the Chicago & North Western in 1898 and also looks at corporate photography on the Kansas City Southern. News items provide updates on the…

$9.75 The cover story showcases winners of the Center’s first-ever photography awards program, while John Gruber recaps the success of the first Conversations about Photography conference and announces the second one. Gruber also looks at David Plowden’s famous “retirement” photograph of Missouri-Kansas-Texas station agent R.H. Birkhead. Don Horn examines Pullman Company photographers and presents several…

$9.75 The cover story by Greg Palumbo looks at the railroad poster art of Bern Hill. News stories announce the Center’s first photography awards program and inaugural “Conversations about Photography” conference. John Gruber examines some of the photographic efforts to document the original transcontinental railroad in the 19th century. Richard Jay Solomon takes an early…

$9.75 The cover story features Chicago Union Station photography. Erik Ledbetter explores the research of John R. Stilgoe and his focus on the “metropolitan corridor.” John H. White Jr., a former curator at the Smithsonian, looks at railroads’ impacts on foods and a photograph of an Oscar Mayer boxcar. Additional articles look at interurban railroad…

$9.75 The cover feature presents the watercolors of Ted Rose. Lee Buchsbaum looks at the 1920s railroad worker photography of Lewis Hine. Additional articles consider O. Winston Link’s photography for Model Builder magazine and work on his eponymous museum as well as the “photographic landmark” of Animas Canyon the Denver & Rio Grande Western. If…

$9.75 A painting by Herbert D. Stitt and an overview of his work for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad leadoff this issue. John Gruber then presents the award-winning photograph “Spirit of Transportation” from 1918 by King Daniel Ganaway, a Black photographer in Chicago. Gruber also examines the corporate photography of William Maurice Rittase, best known…