- Gebundene Ausgabe: 156 Seiten
- Verlag: Prestel; Auflage: 1 (Juni 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 3791326791
- ISBN-13: 978-3791326795
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 32,1 x 16,8 x 2,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 435.382 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Eine Hommage an die Eisenbahn und an die Schönheit der unberührten Landschaften Amerikas. Andrew Cross erhebt das ›trainspotting‹, das Beobachten von Zügen, zu einer legitimen künstlerischen Leidenschaft. Seit 1994 ist der Fotograf, den Güterverkehrsschienen folgend, kreuz und quer durch Amerika gereist und hat seine Erlebnisse fotografisch dokumentiert. Aus seiner Begeisterung für die oft über einen Kilometer langen Eisenbahnzüge und die Weite der Landschaft ist ein Buch von großer persönlicher Ausstrahlung entstanden. Die Fotos dokumentieren zehn Reisen: Sie zeigen die Züge, wie sie durch die weiten, offenen Prärien fahren, sich durch Städte schlängeln, ihre Silhouette an die Berge werfen. Die Buchstaben auf den Güterwagen werden zu geheimnisvollen Chiffren dafür, was die Züge befördern und wohin.
Synopsis
Ever since he was young, Andrew Cross has been crazy about trains, travelling on them and spending hours watching them speed by. This book chronicles his nearly 4000-mile rail adventure across the United States. Presented in a landscape format, Cross's panoramic photographs capture trains bisecting endless prairies, snaking through small towns and silhouetted against the mountains. The photographs are organized geographically in seven sections.
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The first thing you'll notice about this book is the shape, just over twelve inches wide by six and a half deep, just the right landscape size to show very long freight trains. This is not really a book for train fans though, photographers like the brilliant Greg McDonnell, Gary Benson (no relation) or Gary Dolzall have produced much better train imagery but Andrew Cross uses freights to say something about the American landscape.
Most of the photos have part of a train in them, some are just of tracks in the country or suburbia. The seven sections cover southern California, Texas, Appalachia, Northeast, Midwest, Northwest and finally central California. I think the best photos are the ones taken in the west with an empty prairie where you can see six (or sometimes ten) diesels pulling a mile and a half long consist, either boxcars, trailer- on-flat-cars or monster unit coal trains. The section on central California is interesting because Cross shows the area around Tehachapi Loop (but unfortunately not the Loop itself, where freights circle and go over themselves) and the trains seem to merge into the landscape, even the eye dazzling Santa Fe's or the yellow Union Pacific diesels. Overall an interesting collection of photos that support the photographer's point that freight trains are an everyday part of the American scene.
The production of the book is worth commenting on, the shape is fine but the typography is rather quirky, the page numbers are presented as four numerals, 0084 or 0140 and the first page of the seven sections has the number filling the whole left hand page, the captions use arrows to show which photos they apply to even when the photo is on the next page. All this is a bit of designer whimsy and not really necessary in my view.
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Workin' on the railroad.
28. Oktober 2003
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The first thing you'll notice about this book is the shape, just over twelve inches wide by six and a half deep, just the right landscape size to show very long freight trains. This is not really a book for train fans though, photographers like the brilliant Greg McDonnell, Gary Benson or Gary Dolzall have produced much better train imagery but Andrew Cross uses freights to say something about the American landscape, the German photographer Lothar Baumgarten approached the subject in much the same way in his excellent book 'Carbon'
Most of the photos have part of a train in them, some are just of tracks in the country or suburbia. The seven sections cover southern California, Texas, Appalachia, Northeast, Midwest, Northwest and finally central California. I think the best photos are the ones taken in the west with an empty prairie where you can see six (or sometimes ten) diesels pulling a mile and a half long consist, either boxcars, trailer-on-flat-cars or monster unit coal trains. The section on central California is interesting because Cross shows the area around Tehachapi Loop (but unfortunately not the Loop itself, where freights circle and go over themselves) and the trains seem to merge into the landscape, even the eye dazzling Santa Fe's or the yellow Union Pacific diesels. Overall an interesting collection of photos that support the photographer's point that freight trains are an everyday part of the American scene.
The production of the book is worth commenting on, the shape is fine but the typography is rather quirky, the page numbers are presented as four numerals, 0084 or 0140 and the first page of the seven sections has the number filling the whole left hand page, the captions use arrows to show which photos they apply to even when the photo is on the next page. All this is a bit of designer whimsy and not really necessary in my view.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
Most of the photos have part of a train in them, some are just of tracks in the country or suburbia. The seven sections cover southern California, Texas, Appalachia, Northeast, Midwest, Northwest and finally central California. I think the best photos are the ones taken in the west with an empty prairie where you can see six (or sometimes ten) diesels pulling a mile and a half long consist, either boxcars, trailer-on-flat-cars or monster unit coal trains. The section on central California is interesting because Cross shows the area around Tehachapi Loop (but unfortunately not the Loop itself, where freights circle and go over themselves) and the trains seem to merge into the landscape, even the eye dazzling Santa Fe's or the yellow Union Pacific diesels. Overall an interesting collection of photos that support the photographer's point that freight trains are an everyday part of the American scene.
The production of the book is worth commenting on, the shape is fine but the typography is rather quirky, the page numbers are presented as four numerals, 0084 or 0140 and the first page of the seven sections has the number filling the whole left hand page, the captions use arrows to show which photos they apply to even when the photo is on the next page. All this is a bit of designer whimsy and not really necessary in my view.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
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