TRAINS Lecture Series
All lectures are in the Dryden Theatre on Thursday nights from 6:00 – 7:30 pm
All lectures are in the Dryden Theatre on Thursday nights from 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Thomas N. Tischer
World Traveler
September 11, 2008
World Traveler
September 11, 2008
Trains: What We Have and What We Have Lost
Thomas Tischer is a train enthusiast, avid world traveler, and generous sponsor of the museum’s very popular Wish You Were Here Travel Photography Lecture Series. Tom has been traveling the world for more than 60 years. The passenger train has changed with time, and this review will show trains today and trains that are now only memories.
Thomas Tischer is a train enthusiast, avid world traveler, and generous sponsor of the museum’s very popular Wish You Were Here Travel Photography Lecture Series. Tom has been traveling the world for more than 60 years. The passenger train has changed with time, and this review will show trains today and trains that are now only memories.
Andrew Cross
Photographer
October 30, 2008
Photographer
October 30, 2008
The Middle of Nowhere–the Center of Everywhere
Andrew Cross will discuss the background to his work on exhibit, including his interest in trains, fascination with the US landscape, and how his new work links the landscape of his childhood in Southern England with North Dakota. With support from the British Council
Andrew Cross will discuss the background to his work on exhibit, including his interest in trains, fascination with the US landscape, and how his new work links the landscape of his childhood in Southern England with North Dakota. With support from the British Council
Tom Garver
Organizing Curator of the O. Winston Link Museum
November 6, 2008
Organizing Curator of the O. Winston Link Museum
November 6, 2008
Trains that Passed in the Night: The Railroad Photos of O. Winston Link
Tom Garver, former assistant to O. Winston Link, covers the development of Link's photographic style and how he applied it in his documentation of the last years of steam-powered locomotion on the Norfolk and Western Railway. © O. Winston Link Museum
Tom Garver, former assistant to O. Winston Link, covers the development of Link's photographic style and how he applied it in his documentation of the last years of steam-powered locomotion on the Norfolk and Western Railway. © O. Winston Link Museum
Anne Lyden
Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum Cross
November 13, 2008
Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum Cross
November 13, 2008
Railroad Vision: A Photographic Journey
The history of railroads and the history of photography have, so to speak, run on parallel tracks. Both were invented in the first half of the nineteenth century; both have had profound effects on the way we experience the world. Anne Lyden's Railroad Vision celebrates how photographs captured the romantic vision of railroads as the symbol of industrial development, expanding nations, a suddenly accessible world, and a changing society. From Édouard Baldus' images of the new French lines in the 1860s to O. Winston Link's nighttime views of the last steam-powered trains in 1950s America, this lecture illustrates the profound impact that railroads and photography had on perceptions of space, time, distance, and travel.
The history of railroads and the history of photography have, so to speak, run on parallel tracks. Both were invented in the first half of the nineteenth century; both have had profound effects on the way we experience the world. Anne Lyden's Railroad Vision celebrates how photographs captured the romantic vision of railroads as the symbol of industrial development, expanding nations, a suddenly accessible world, and a changing society. From Édouard Baldus' images of the new French lines in the 1860s to O. Winston Link's nighttime views of the last steam-powered trains in 1950s America, this lecture illustrates the profound impact that railroads and photography had on perceptions of space, time, distance, and travel.
Glenn Willumson
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Florida
Janurary 15, 2009
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Florida
Janurary 15, 2009
Iron Muse: The Pictorial Legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad
Historian Glenn Willumson connects how the first transcontinental railroad images brought about a new understanding of the post–Civil War role of the American West and helped reconstruct America as an industrial nation with a grand new western horizon.
Historian Glenn Willumson connects how the first transcontinental railroad images brought about a new understanding of the post–Civil War role of the American West and helped reconstruct America as an industrial nation with a grand new western horizon.
