Monthly Archives: November 2018

Railway Poster • Joseph Binder • 1940s

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America’s Railroads • Joseph Binder • WW2

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Music of the Rails • Engine 54 • 1968

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Music of the Rails • Oscar Peterson • 1963

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Music of the Rails • JJ Cale • 1974

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Music of the Rails • Psychedelic Train • 1970

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Railway Photographer • Margaret Bourke White • USA • 1945

German refugee train at the end of WW2…by the American photographer Margaret Bourke White.

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Railway Photographer • Robert Doisneau • France • 1950s

The French photographer, Robert Doisneau, is widely known as a member of the humanist photography movement of the middle 20C. He was also a street-photographer, and is famous nowadays for his image, Le Baiser de l’hotel de ville (1950). Doisneau … Continue reading

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Alex Katz • Cezanne and the Railway…

In a recent interview, the US artist Alex Katz made an interesting point about the painting of Paul Cezanne… I am conscious of Cezanne’s clumsy, overworked surfaces – his problems with human volumes – but on the train ride back … Continue reading

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