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WALLY ABBEY VISITS CINCINNATI UNION TERMINAL PRESENTED BY: GEORGE - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
WALLY ABBEY VISITS CINCINNATI UNION TERMINAL PRESENTED BY: GEORGE - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
WALLY ABBEY VISITS CINCINNATI UNION TERMINAL PRESENTED BY: GEORGE W. HAMLIN At Northwestern University Transportation Center Sandhouse Gang Evanston, Illinois April 12, 2018 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Wally Abbey photographs courtesy of the Center
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Wally Abbey photographs courtesy of the Center for Railroad Photography and Art
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WHO WAS WALLY ABBEY?
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WHO WAS WALLY ABBEY?
Wallace W. Abbey III; 1927-2014
- Journalist
- Railroader
- Communications/Public Relations
Professional
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THERE IS A NORTHWESTERN CONNECTION
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THERE IS A NORTHWESTERN CONNECTION The tradition of Willie the Wildcat was established in 1924 when Wallace Abbey
- f the Chicago Tribune wrote, "The
Northwestern team fought like wildcats yesterday..." The name so expressed the fighting spirit of the team that the name "Wildcats" was officially adopted as the University's athletic nickname.
Source: “History of Willie the Wildcat”, www.northwestern.edu
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WHO WAS WALLY ABBEY?
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WHO WAS WALLY ABBEY? Wallace W. “Wally” Abbey (1927-2014) belongs to a rare species of railroad photographers: those who have a full understanding of all aspects of railroading, coupled with the knowledge of how to present visual ideas in a manner that excites the railroad community and the general public alike.
Source: Center for Railroad Photography & Art website
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FURTHER … In Wally Abbey’s creative and comprehensive views, we see people at work, travelers on luxury trains, interiors
- f cars, workers in the shop and on the
track, and trains in many of their varied habitats.
Source: Center for Railroad Photography & Art website
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The Magnificent Venue
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AN ART DECO MASTERPIECE
The Cincinnati Union Terminal was begun in 1930 and completed in 1933. The terminal, with its associated buildings, with its twenty-one associated buildings, bridges, viaducts, and walkways was indeed built in a coordinated Art Deco style. The project was so massive that it can be compared only to the largest projects of the 1930s – Hoover Dam, Golden Gate Bridge, and Rockefeller Center.
Source: Rediscovering Art Deco U.S.A, Capitman, Kinerk and Wilhelm, Viking Studio Books, 1994
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Weinold Reiss murals
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Weinold Reiss murals-detail
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THE PLAYERS
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THE TRAINS
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TWO ONGOING TRANSITIONS
- Steam-Diesel
- Postwar streamliners
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STEAM FINALE
Railroad Last Steam Service Baltimore & Ohio 1960 Chesapeake & Ohio 1957 Louisville & Nashville 1957 New York Central 1957 Norfolk & Western 1960 Pennsylvania 1957 Southern 1953 Source: Wikipedia
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B&O “Bird” series sleeping car
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L&N “Pine” series sleeping car; L&N Historical Society, via Ron Flanary
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OUTSTANDING PHOTOS
- Tell a story, or are a part of a
story
- Will stand the test of time
- Have strong esthetic appeal
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OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY ON THREE LEVELS
- Photojournalism
- History
- Art
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OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY ON THREE LEVELS
- Photojournalism
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The Fruits of Wally’s Labors
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The Fruits of Wally’s Labors
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DID IT WORK?
“His article on the Terminal was especially memorable; legions of talented photographers flocked there in the early 1950s to record the Art Deco passenger-train mecca. But Abbey’s photographs were definitive.”
Source: Wallace W. Abbey, A Life in Railroad Photography, Kevin P. Keefe and Scott Lothes, Indiana University Press, 2018, page 64
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A 1972 REPRISE
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OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY ON THREE LEVELS
- Photojournalism
- History
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1952
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1952
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The Venue and Environs
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BEHIND THE SCENES
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PASSENGER’S PERSPECTIVE
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OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPHY ON THREE LEVELS
- Photojournalism
- History
- Art
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CATCHING THE VIEWER’S EYE WITH
- Light
- Line
- Form/Shape
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But look again at this scene of the James Whitcomb Riley boarding on track 4, for it contains a rare, a mysterious, almost an other-world
- quality. The redcap turns and looks
back up the ramp with a look of mixed acceptance and pain on his face … the young woman turns too, and her expression is more than simple curiosity … and the train and its passengers and crew appear to vanish into the mist in the distance.
Source: Trains, February 1972, page 55
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Do these people somehow sense they’re almost beyond time and into history, even as the shutter is snapped? We know not. We do know that Wally Abbey took an uncommon photo as the clock ticked toward 8:30 a.m. on that day in September 1952.
Source: Trains, February 1972, page 55
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PRESENTED BY: GEORGE W. HAMLIN
At
Northwestern University Transportation Center Sandhouse Gang Evanston, Illinois April 12, 2018
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Available from: www.railphoto-art.org
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