O. Winston Link (1914-2001)
Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat, Virginia, 1957
Gelatin silver print, printed 1986; signed and annotated in pencil, the photographer's copyright credit and reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed.
15 1/2 x 19 3/8 in. (39.4 x 49.2 cm.)
sheet 16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.6 x 50.5 cm.)
Footnotes:
Literature
O. Winston Link, Life Along The Line: A Photographic Portrait of America's Last Great Steam Railroad (New York, 2012), p. 113

This gelatin silver print with margins on paper with a slight surface texture is in generally very good condition. Two sharp, crescent-shaped creases are visible in the lower left portion of the image and two are visible in the upper right portion, some of which appear to break the emulsion. Visible in raking light are a few tiny deposits of original retouching in the sky area.

On the reverse, the following are written in unidentified hands in pencil: 'NW1635'; 'PCFG3'; 'ARCH'; '6-86'; and 'FAF59455'. The photographer's reproduction rights stamp is annotated 'NW1635' in an unidentified hand in ink. There is a stray ink mark in the lower right corner. Sold framed.