{"product_id":"railroad-vision-photography-travel-and-perception","title":"Railroad Vision: Photography, Travel, and Perception","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne M. Lyden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1830 the British actress Fanny Kemble described the sensation of riding in a train as strange beyond description. This revolutionary new mode of transportation came into being at almost exactly the same time as an equally revolutionary new invention: photography. The two would radically change our perception of time, space, and our place in the world, leading to a new way of seeing that the author, in this thoroughly engaging account, calls \"railroad vision.\" In her words: \"It is difficult for one to fully grasp how revolutionary these two nineteenth-century innovations were, yet their mutually beneficial relationship has shaped our experience of the modern world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith more than one hundred photographs, many from the collection of the Getty Museum, \u003ci\u003eRailroad Vision\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the parallel histories of railroads and photography—from a photograph of George Stephenson's steam engine Locomotion, to powerful images from the American Civil War, to a mid-twentieth-century photograph by O. Winston Link of a train roaring by a drive-in movie theater. Images by Carleton Watkins, Walker Evans, William Eggleston, and others capture the fascination inspired by railroads and the experience of travel by rail. Whether commissioned by railroad companies or made as independent works of art, these photographs testify to the enduring connection between two technologies that forever changed our perception of the world. \u003ci\u003eRailroad Vision\u003c\/i\u003e includes new information on many trains and locomotives that will be of particular interest to railroad enthusiasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne M. Lyden is international photography curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, and former associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e11 x 8 1\/2 inches\u003cbr\u003e23 color and 107 duotone illustrations\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-0-89236-726-9\u003cbr\u003ehardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetty Publications\u003cbr\u003eImprint: J. Paul Getty Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2003\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GETTY TRUST PUBLICATIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67889365647639,"sku":"iwa1792568192298","price":33.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0932\/8479\/4647\/files\/railroad-vision-photography-travel-and-perception_1.jpg?v=1792568198","url":"https:\/\/riverlyn.shop\/products\/railroad-vision-photography-travel-and-perception","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}