O Winston Link Biography:
O. Winston Link has been called one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, but he was more than that. He was a historian, a storyteller and an artist. Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1914, Link learned about photography from his father. By the time he was in high school, he had built his own enlarger and gained additional experience at a local photo shop, where he processed and enlarged his art, prints and posters. Link was class president from his freshman to his senior year while at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and he was photographic editor of both the school's newspaper and yearbook. Link earned his degree in civil engineering during the Depression, and he knew that work for engineers would be scarce. So in 1937 he took a job with Carl Byoir and Associates, a large public relations firm in New York City. When World War II began, he started working as a photographer at a lab where secret military research was being conducted. The lab was adjacent to the Long Island Railroad, and the sights and sounds of the locomotives rekindled his childhood fascination with the steam-powered giants. Link began photographing the passing trains during his spare time.
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