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Trains: Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine Hardcover – April 28, 2018
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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.
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSchiffer
- Publication dateApril 28, 2018
- Dimensions9.4 x 0.8 x 8.1 inches
- ISBN-100764354930
- ISBN-13978-0764354939
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #230,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #17 in Railroad Pictorials
- #41 in History of Railroads
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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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Dissapointed. Book is smaller than anticipated, captions are very bad, very few photos of trains!.
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018I 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.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2023VERY SATISFIED WITH THIS PRODUCT
- Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021She is a great photographer and this is a nice book with great photos
- Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019I 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.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2018This 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.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2020My 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, 2020Discovered the person I bought the gift for had written the forward to the book. Great surprise!
- Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2020Gave as a gift to a railfan in the family. He loved the book.
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- 31422Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2019
4.0 out of 5 stars Railway photography by a 'Pictorialist'.
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