1980 The Steam Cameramen

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Slipcase

First edition. Signed by the founder of the Railway Photographic Society, Maurice Earley. A limited edition of two thousand copies, of which this is number five hundred and forty-four. Illustrated throughout with over four hundred black-and-white photographs. A detailed and comprehensive study into the art of railway photography. Offering commentaries on the development of photography from the introduction of the Railway Photographic Society in 1922, alongside sketches of individual photographers who helped grow interest in this area. This work acts as a historic album of the work of important photographers, the Railway Photographic Society, and the changing trains that they photographed. Compiled by Brian Morrison, an English photographer specialising in railway photography, who contributed to almost every issue of British Railway Magazine before his retirement. Morrison also played a significant role in establishing and the production of Railway Herald.