TRAINS OF THOUGHT – EDITED FOR THE PHOENIX RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHIC CIRCLE BY A.W. HOBSON
TRAINS ong>OFong> THOUGHT – EDITED FOR THE PHOENIX RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHIC CIRCLE BY A.W. HOBSON PUBLISHED BY GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN ISBN: HARDBACK WITH DUSTCOVER 128 PAGES CONDITION VG – Dustcover has very light wear, rear covering slightly crazed – otherwise whole book in excellent condition. The 230 previously unpublished photographs in this important book were taken mainly in the mid and late s by members ong>ofong> the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle. The Circle was founded in from the cream ong>ofong> active railway photographers to encourage and explore progressive and experimental apptoaches to the photography ong>ofong> diesel and electric rail traction. The book reflects the Circle’s abiding aim ong>ofong> taking railway-photography beyond the confines ong>ofong> mere photographic records, unto a fuller and more vivid re-creation ong>ofong> the experience ong>ofong> contemplating railways and also, sometimes, into the realm ong>ofong> art. It will help to expand the frontiers ong>ofong> railway-photographic taste by demonstrating that photography ong>ofong> diesel and electric traction can be as exciting and as beautiful as that ong>ofong> steam. It will appeal to all railway enthusiasts but particularly to those who are activfely interested in modern traction, and who are looking for more in a railway photograph than a rivet-counting visual record – looking, in fact, for the vivid pictorial representation ong>ofong> trains in their total environment. Accordingly, most ong>ofong> the sections into which the book is divided emphasise discreetly aspects ong>ofong> the environment in which the railway operates: stations, open country, or heavy industrial landscape; varying and sometimes extreme weather conditions: and the people – travellers, railway workers or just watchers – who come and go around the trains. It is hoped indeed, that the broad pictorial emphasis found in this book will help to carry the appeal ong>ofong> railways to those who would not normally consider themselves enthusiasts, and help them to experience some ong>ofong> the interest and excitement ong>ofong> modern railways for the first time. Trains ong>ofong> British Rail, Irish railways and London Transport are depicted, but no attempt made to cover all the types ong>ofong> diesel or electric traction at work on these systems, or to give comprehensive geographical coverage – the accent at all times is on railway pictures as pictures. ong>Collectionong> Shepperton but I can deliver VERY locally on occasion. I can post, please contact me for a price. I have literally hundreds ong>ofong> bits and bobs coming up for sale in the following months so keep an eye out. On other sites Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit