Robert Day (1) (1957–)
Autor(a) de The Lost Railway: The Midlands
Para outros autores com o nome Robert Day, ver a página de desambiguação.
About the Author
Image credit: Robert Day (2011)
Obras por Robert Day
The soul of the machine; 2011 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1957-07-31
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, UK
- Locais de residência
- Fillongley, Warwickshire, England, UK
Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, England, UK - Educação
- Herbert Strutt School, Belper, Derbyshire
Belper High School
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic - Ocupações
- librarian
civil servant
software tester
author
photographer - Organizações
- Public & Commercial Services Union (UK)
Sutton Coldfield Model Makers' Society
Austrian Railway Group
German Railway Society
Birmingham Science Fiction Group - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Labour Photographer of the Year (2008)
Center for Railroad Photography & Art Creative Awards Program (Winner ∙ Color section ∙ 2012)
FORMAT 13 international photography festival (Exhibitor, 2013)
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 7
- Popularidade
- #1,123,407
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 54
The pictures are very evocative of an era that has gone and will not return. Today the railway stations are de-humanised. One buys a ticket from a machine or on-line. Everything is focused on efficiency and processing passenger numbers as quickly as possible.
Robert has not only produced a book full of lovely pictures of railway stations, signal boxes, railway bridges, and railway hotels, but has provided informative commentary about the history of the stations and railway companies pictured. He has also used his family experience of using rail transport to highlight the changes that have happened and how reduced the influence of the railway is today.
This is a wonderful book and I have had many hours of enjoyment from browsing through the pages and reading the annotations beside the images. One of the incidental pleasures I felt when looking at the pictures was seeing the old cars from the 70s. That really took me back.
I am not a railway enthusiast, but I still find this book fascinating and I would have been very happy if it had appeared in my Christmas stocking.… (mais)