Monthly Archives: December 2018

A Different Metro • Jean Giraud (Meobius) • France

This drawing of the modern metro is by French illustrator and writer, Jean Giraud, called Meobius (1938-2012). His vision of a hybrid, exciting and slightly dilapidated, modernity was deeply compelling…as used in Star Wars and in Bladerunner.

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Railway Literature • Closely Observed Trains • 1970

Lovely typography

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Music of the Rails • Kraftwerk • 1977

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Railway Painting • Edward Hopper • 1965

Chair Car

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Railway Painting • Edward Hopper • 1938

Compartment C

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Railway Poster • Bryan de Grineau • 1938

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Railway Painting • Edward Hopper • Life • 1944

American Locomotive in Life Magazine 1944

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Railway Painting • Edwrad Hopper • c1925

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Railway Painting • Laszlo Moholy Nagy • 1920

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Railway Photography • USA • c1940s (Vertov in the USA)

This reminded me of the tram shed sequence in Dziga-Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1928)

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