Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
this photo should win an award (best scene full screen)
A stunning scene of a former C and O cantilever signal glowing brightly against the snow along the CSX main line near Pence Springs, West Virginia on February 19, 2012.
In September of 1825 the steam-powered, Stockton and Darlington began service on a standard-gauged right-of-way of 4-feet, 8 1/2-inches.
The width was based upon ancient Roman chariot roads and championed by locomotive builders George and Robert Stephenson, earning it the name "Stephenson Gauge."
http://www.american-rails.com/railroad-infrastructure.html
1960's album cover photos of Guy Webster
these guys were famous for a single hit "Pushin Too Hard" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNZwCNSSWlI and trivia moment, coined the phrase Flower Power
The War on Poverty in the Pages of LIFE; Appalachia Portraits, 1964
In his 1964 work titled “The Valley of Poverty”, Dominis brings attention to the fact that in the 1960s – a time when most of America had long recovered from the Great Depression, the people of the Appalachian region were still living through a great deal of poverty.
David Allan Coe – If That Ain't Country Lyrics
The old man was covered with tattoos and scars
He got some in prison and others in bars
The rest he got working' on old junk cars
in the daytime
They looked like tombstones in our yard
And I never seen him when he wasn't tired and mean
He sold used parts to make ends meet
Covered with grease from his head to his feet
Cussing' the sweat and the texas heat and skeeterz
And the neighbors said we lived like hicks
But they brung their cars for pa to fix anyhow
Now our place was a graveyard for automobiles
At the end of the porch there was four stacks of wheels
And tires for sale for a dollar or two cash
There was fifty holes in an old tin roof
Me and my family we was living' proof
The people who forgot about poor white trash
And if that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass
If that ain't country, it'll hair lip the pope
If that ain't country, it's a damn good joke
I've seen the grand ole opry,
And I've met johnny cash
If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass
http://time.com/3878609/war-on-poverty-appalachia-portraits-1964/
Penn Station, New York 1910
Penn Station, operating staff consulting with train engineer on platform,
At the time Penn Station was conceived, the Pennsylvania Railroad had the largest operating budget of any enterprise in the United States, other than the federal government.
That changed and the railroads were doomed when the Panama canal opened. Consider, one train loaded with silk was 5 million dollars of cargo, and the best way to get it to New York was from Asia to Seattle, then by train to Chicago then New York... right up until they could get shipped quickly through the Panama canal instead of the long way around the South American continent.
https://www.facebook.com/neatoldphotos.m.lucas2/photos/a.400823796751664.1073741829.400758923424818/687548421412532/?type=3
http://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2014/02/the-cmsp-an-electric-train.html
Studio Amos Fricke photography
Looks like a painting. Terrific composition
https://drivetribe.com/t/BMCf5dIMSniJ5cVT9_pPpw/Xd-KHN2vTMKJYmgvNVBRWA
I love to learn of wonderful people, who've done wonderful things, and made wonderful collections. Allow me to introduce you to Guy Webster... photographer of the stars, collector of motorcycles
He turned his earnings into houses, married, and began a family. He took time off to live in Europe, buying a farmhouse in Spain and spending two years studying art in Florence, Italy.
That’s where he fell in love with Italian motorcycles.
“I decided I needed three or four different bikes, because they were good for different kinds of riding,” he said. “But when I had 10, I decided to let myself go up to 20. Then I went up to 30.”
Webster filled two garages with his motorcycles, eventually, he built a two-story barn. The collection grew to 150 as Webster bought, sold and traded increasingly rare machines.
Retired wine entrepreneur Robb Talbott, (Robb Report http://robbreport.com/Automobiles/Motorcycling-For-The-Executive-Rider--A-Connoisseurs-Collection read this article, it's excellent ) who now operates the Moto Talbott Collection motorcycle museum in Carmel Valley, said he became faint when he first visited Webster’s collection in 2003.
Webster once received a call from New Hampshire informing him of a 1957 MV Agusta Squalo that was stored in a basement—in four separate boxes. He traveled to New Hampshire, claimed the boxes, and spent two years restoring the motorcycle to its current glory.
The Squalo and every other motorcycle in Webster’s garage represent a chapter in Italy’s two-wheeled lore. Together they underscore the essence of each marque, illustrate the evolution of power and engine sizes, and demonstrate the influence of racing on Italian motorcycles. The pieces coalesce to create a collection that, like an exhibition arranged by a master curator, makes a complete and seamless statement.
“There is no other museum that could have come close to it, for the quality, the artistic value of the bikes, and the rarity of the bikes,” Talbott said.“Some of them are one of only one in the world, or one of three in the world. In America, he was No. 1.”
To see a gallery of them, photographed by him (surely a master photographer with a passion for these bikes can not do less than incredible work unparalleled by any other) see http://www.motoguy.com/#
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guy-Webster-motorcycle-collection/129472713787740
The famed collection is headed to auction though, in the next four days starting today, at events held in Las Vegas, eight of Webster’s finest will cross the block.
Bonhams will sell a 1988 Ducati Corsa race bike that may fetch $34,000, and a 2000 Ducati MH900E that may sell for $24,000, the auction house said. (A 1959 Ducati 175 F3 it sold in 2015 brought $89,000.)
The six motorcycles to be sold by Mecum are a rare Ducati, two Ceccatos, a pair of FB Mondials and three MV Agustas — including the first 175cc Webster bought in 1959 for $300.
The motorcycles could together return as much as $500,000. But Webster claimed indifference to those figures. “I don’t care about the money at this point,” he said. “Those days are gone. I’m happy to know they’ll go to good homes.” But not all of them will. Webster eventually admitted he is retaining a few bikes for himself.
There are five motorcycles with which he could not bear to part; the bike he named as his favorite of all time, a 1976 Moto Guzzi 850cc Le Mans 1, and a rare 1988 Bimota 750cc Super Sport 750cc.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-guy-webster-profile-20170120-story.html (thanks Larry!)
the Mamas and the Papas
Introduced to photography during a stint in the Army, he accepted a proposition from a buddy who was starting a record company and needed a house photographer.
The buddy was Lou Adler, the record company was Dunhill, and one of the first acts Webster shot The Mamas and The Papas (“California Dreamin’”).
Webster shortly became the town’s top photographer. He would go on to shoot many of the most iconic album covers of the 1960s and ’70s — The Doors’ debut release and Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence” among them — and chronicle the careers of such recording artists as The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys and The Byrds
With his controversial cover shot on the Mamas and the Papas’ first album, Webster firmly established his reputation as a photographer capable not only of capturing the emotional nuance of the era, but also of helping to define it.
Musicians and actors—such as Simon and Garfunkel, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda, Jim Morrison, Natalie Wood, Janis Joplin, Raquel Welch, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger—are among the hundreds of personalities Webster shot before they were legends.
He was stationed at Fort Ord just outside of Carmel when his officer-in-command asked, “Do you know anything about photography? I lied and said, ‘Yes, I know everything about it.’ ” Having never taken a photograph, Webster stayed up all night reading books on the subject and in the morning, he taught his first class on it.
http://c-for-men.com/travel/the-road-less-traveled
You can read a good article about the collection as it was in 1992 on Google Books, the Jan-Jun issue of Cycle World Magazine
