O. Winston Link’s railway archive includes sound

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An artist worked in two media.

1 minute read · Gretna Junction Research Desk

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Beyond the photograph

Roanoke’s O. Winston Link Museum describes photographic and sound work made from 1955 to 1960.

It records more than 2,000 images and 100 seven-inch sound reels across 21 trips. Its account emphasizes that Link carefully arranged images rather than merely encountering ready-made compositions.

Two ways to discover

The pairing offers two ways into the work: look at how a picture is composed, then seek the authorized recordings. A photograph cannot play its own soundtrack.

This article neither embeds a recording nor reproduces a Link photograph; the museum is the starting point for discovering both.

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