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

A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was aBaltimore Sunfeature 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. Bodines 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 Bodines 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 areBodines Chesapeake Bay Country,Bodines City, andBodines Industry.By Jennifer B. BodineA. 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.121 b/w imagesPhotography of A. Aubrey Bodine121 b/w images