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Trains: Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine Hardcover – April 28, 2018

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A. Aubrey Bodine's archive of train photographs chronicling mid-twentieth-century rail transportation.

A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This book is his archive of train photographs chronicling mid-20th-century rail transportation and the people working on the railroad. Bodine’s images of steam and diesel locomotives document an era passed.

  • award-winning pictures
  • currently popular pictures
  • historically interesting pictures
  • pictures unseen until this volume

These images demonstrate Bodine’s pictorialist and modernist photographic eye for trains and railroads in motion and at rest. Bodine published four books, wrote articles, judged photographic Salons, won awards from all over the world, lectured across northeast America, and held down a full-time job at a major metropolitan newspaper. This is the fourth Bodine picture book assembled by his daughter, Jennifer. Their previous collaborations are Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country, Bodine’s City, and Bodine’s Industry.

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Engines #1205 and #1209: Western Maryland Railway (c. 1950)

February 27, 1827, twenty-five businessmen met for dinner in the Holliday Street home of George Brown to see what could be done to offset the effects of the newly opened Erie Canal. They feared the loss of commerce that flowed through Baltimore to the West to the canal. They collectively said they had no choice but to build a railroad. No one had ever built a railroad on such a scale, and the project was much like the space program of the 1960s that put men on the moon.

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A. Aubrey Bodine devoted his life to elevating photography to an art form. Called a pictorialist, he photographed people, city, rural, and maritime scenes and trains. Jennifer B. Bodine, Esq., owns and operates www.aaubreybodine.com, selling digitally restored A. Aubrey Bodine note cards and reprints.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schiffer; 1st edition (April 28, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764354930
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764354939
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.4 x 0.8 x 8.1 inches
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Customers enjoy the book's photos, which are printed clearly on high-quality coated paper. They appreciate the clear photographs of railroad subjects taken by a great photographer. The book is described as a nice gift.

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Customers appreciate the book's photography. They find the photos clear, printed on high-quality coated paper, and describe them in detail. The photographs are of railroad subjects taken by a great photographer.

"...sure the reproduction in the 1950s book did not do justice to his beautiful images, knowing the printing standards of the time...." Read more

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"...paper during the 50s and 60s, and took many notable, atmospheric photos in and around Baltimore, capturing the mood and industry of the City as it..." Read more

"Some very nice pictures here, however, if you are looking for more motion shots, you'll be disappointed like me...." Read more

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Dissapointed. Book is smaller than anticipated, captions are very bad, very few photos of trains!.
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Dissapointed. Book is smaller than anticipated, captions are very bad, very few photos of trains!.
Recently bought this one based on the glowing reviews, along with the similar but much larger format books showing the work of J. Parker Lamb, Shaughnessy, and Donald Furler, and this one, by FAR, is the worst of the bunch. Schiffer did their usual job of fantastic publishing, great binding, nice paper, very high quality, but a smaller format than I expected - should have read the description better.The really disappointing thing to me is the very limited scope of the photos. Almost everything in here is Western Maryland Railroad, with a few B&O shots. Many pics of F3's and F7's sitting still, lots of photos that don't show trains AT ALL! Some, you've got to hunt for the train in the photo because it was taken from so far away. The best photos in the book are the ones shown in the item description. This is only a 128 page book. 17 pages are filled with the daughter's intro talking about her dad.The BIG disappointment is the downright lazy and inaccurate captions above each photo - one liners with no details and they're wrong in many cases. Typical caption "Western Maryland Diesel (c. 1950)" and that's it! The bigger problem comes in when they are so far off on the dates of obvious photos. There are two that really blew me away - one shows an auto carrying car loaded with new '65 Mercurys and a '65 Mustang, and another that shows a nearly identical car loaded with new 1962 Thunderbirds. Both are captioned, "(c. 1950)- no kidding! Even if you don't know anything about trains, you can't recognize a 1965 Mustang? And say the photo was taken in 1950?WOULD NOT recommend this book. I do photography as a hobby and side job, the book isn't impressive and the captions are downright awful. There are much better railroad photography books out there for the money. When this book is at Ollie's for $5.99, buy it then. There are about 20 good photos in it for the true railfan, but not many more.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018
    I was not aware of A. Aubrey Bodine as a photographer until quite recently when I saw this book in a catalog. We are big fans of the Western Maryland Railway and when I saw that the WM was featured in this book, I had to have it. His daughter has produced a splendid digital library of his very skillful and artistic photographs for the Baltimore Sun. Some of the ones featured in this book were also published in the 1950s in a book written by Harold A. Williams, Jr.: The Western Maryland Railway Story. I am sure the reproduction in the 1950s book did not do justice to his beautiful images, knowing the printing standards of the time. In the Schiffer book, there are superb deep blacks and fine gradations of black and white shades, some of which is undoubtedly due to good scanning values used to produce the files for printing. Other railroads of the Baltimore and Maryland area are also included. I highly recommend this book to railroad photography fans and any lover of fine photographic books.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2023
    VERY SATISFIED WITH THIS PRODUCT
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021
    She is a great photographer and this is a nice book with great photos
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019
    I enjoyed the selected photographs of railroad subjects taken by Baltimore's premier photographer. I grew up seeing his photos in the Sunday Sun newspaper. Bodine worked for the paper during the 50s and 60s, and took many notable, atmospheric photos in and around Baltimore, capturing the mood and industry of the City as it was then.
    The book relies heavily on photographs Bodine took for the Western Maryland Railway as part of it's 100th anniversary celebration. Those photos dominate the book; a few photos record other railroads in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
    Photos are printed clearly on high-quality coated paper, and afternoons describe most photos in more detail.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2018
    This is one of the best railroad books I’ve ever seen. My husband is the collector but I couldn’t put this book down myself. You get lost in these photographs, they are amazing. Engaging - even captivating.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2020
    My grandfather comes from a railroading family and loves this sort of gift — plus he found a photograph of his father in the book!
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2020
    Discovered the person I bought the gift for had written the forward to the book. Great surprise!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2020
    Gave as a gift to a railfan in the family. He loved the book.

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    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2019
    It's always interesting to see how a non enthusiast photographer approaches the subject of railways. A. Aubrey Bodine was a feature photographer with the Baltimore Sunday Sun from 1927-1970. His approach to photography was that of an artist. This selection of his work by his daughter largely comprises images he made of the Western Maryland Railway. There are some stunning works that would have benefitted from a larger format book than this. Highly recommended to anyone interested in American railways and particularly to photographers looking for something a little different from the norm