The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover

O. Winston Link (1914-2001) was one of America's most exceptional photographic artists. His meticulously composed, nighttime images, made primarily during the Fifties, celebrate the last days of steam railroading in this country and today are widely regarded as icons of 20th Century Americana. Public recognition of Link's unique talent came late in his life, however, when more than forty years later books of his photos were published. Today there is an O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Virginia—the only museum devoted to the work of a single photographer—and his original prints sell for thousands of dollars to collectors, while railroad and photography buffs can purchase O. Winston Link postcards and calendars.