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johnmsanderson
31-Aug-2014, 14:46
Hi All,

I would like to announce a solo exhibition of my railroad landscape work at the New York Transit Museum. All large format, 4x5 and 8x10, 4x10. Hope you can make it! There will be opening reception TBD.



NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM

August 28, 2014

Contact:

Eli Rumpf (718) 694-4915

eli.rumpf@nyct.com


http://galleries.gothamistllc.com/asset/5400ae626883300608b3af07/mobile/Railroad%20Power%20Station,%20Glenwood%20NY.%20Photo%20by%20John%20Sanderson.jpg


Railroad Landscapes: Photographs by John Sanderson



New photo exhibition follows the path of the railroad in New York State.



Opens on September 13, 2014. Runs through February 1, 2015 at the New York Transit Museum



The New York Transit Museum’s newest exhibition, Railroad Landscapes: Photographs by John Sanderson, traces the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad through the natural and built environments of New York State, capturing beauty and desolation in the landscape. The exhibition will feature 18 to 19 large format contemporary images by John Sanderson. Opening on September 13, the exhibition will run through February 1, 2015 at the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn.



Originally focused on railroad rolling stock and operations, Sanderson’s recent work highlights the ever-changing physical surroundings of rail lines, using the tracks as a means to explore American landscapes. This exhibition will feature large, rich-color prints alternating between two formats – the 4:3 aspect ratio and the panoramic format – including two images stretching to nearly 10 feet along the walls of the Transit Museum screening room.



The photos capture expansive skies, changing seasons and early morning light along the tracks while telling stories of railroading past in New York. One photograph shows the abandoned Yonkers Power Station, designed in the early 1900s by Grand Central Terminal architectural firm Reed & Stem for the newly-electrified New York Central Railroad. Closed for 50 years, its smokestacks still loom over the nearby Glenwood Metro-North station. Another photograph shows the Buffalo Central Terminal, an expansive ruin opened in 1929 during New York Central’s heyday as a vital link between the Northeast and Midwest, built to accommodate thousands of passengers per hour. Although the terminal has long been shuttered, its tracks still remain.



Railroad Landscapes: Photographs by John Sanderson brings visitors on a breathtaking visual journey along the tracks, providing a fresh perspective on the American landscape.



John Sanderson lives and works in New York City, where he has exhibited at several galleries. He was awarded a scholarship and travel grant through the Center for Railroad Photography and Art in 2013 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Hunter College.

http://galleries.gothamistllc.com/asset/5400ae626883300608b3af07/mobile/Steelways%20Shipyard,%20Newburgh,%20New%20York%20(2012).%20Photo%20by%20John%20Sanderson.jpg




What: Railroad Landscapes: Photographs by John Sanderson



Where: New York Transit Museum

Corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street

Downtown Brooklyn



When: September 13, 2014 through February 1, 2015



Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 4pm

Saturday – Sunday: 11am – 5pm

Closed Mondays and major holidays



Admission: Adults $7

Children 2-17 and Seniors (62+) $5

Seniors free every Wednesday

Museum members and children under 2 free

Jmarmck
31-Aug-2014, 14:52
Good luck!

Rank Amature
31-Aug-2014, 18:52
Congratulations! I checked out your web page to see some of your railroad images and just wanted to say I loved your shot of the coaling tower! Good luck with your show -
Mark

Erik Larsen
31-Aug-2014, 19:13
Looks like a great show, wonderful subject and photographs!

h2oman
1-Sep-2014, 07:11
I've always enjoyed your work, John, and I'm sorry I live too far away to see the show!

johnmsanderson
2-Sep-2014, 19:06
Thank you! This forum has been a great asset as I've worked with large format. It's great to be able to show the work!!

AtlantaTerry
2-Sep-2014, 23:45
Eli,

Nice work.

Will you be offering signed prints for sale?

johnmsanderson
3-Sep-2014, 10:34
Terry --

The prints will be part of the museum collection, so no not for sale /directly/ though the museum.

John

SMBooth
3-Sep-2014, 19:23
Hey ! I can go to this. I'll be in NYC then.

Jim Graves
7-Sep-2014, 19:04
Congrats ... would love to see it in person!

johnmsanderson
8-Sep-2014, 10:39
Thank you Jim. -- Shane please feel free to give me a shout when you are in the city.

Kirk Gittings
8-Sep-2014, 11:43
Those two images are superb. Are the rest to be seen online? Congratulations!

johnmsanderson
8-Sep-2014, 12:11
Thank you Kirk. That is quite compliment coming from you.

There's a pretty good sampling of some of the images in the show Here (http://www.bkmag.com/2014/09/08/beautiful-photos-of-railroad-landscapes-coming-to-transit-museum/)

Kirk Gittings
8-Sep-2014, 14:38
Thank you Kirk. That is quite compliment coming from you.

There's a pretty good sampling of some of the images in the show Here (http://www.bkmag.com/2014/09/08/beautiful-photos-of-railroad-landscapes-coming-to-transit-museum/)

Sweet! Thanks. You should be very proud of these images.

Struan Gray
8-Sep-2014, 23:39
What Kirk said.

Your photographs always stand out in the image threads here (I don't think it's *just* because they're in colour :-). It's interesting to see what ends up in a coherent edit like this.

DennisD
9-Sep-2014, 17:36
Hi John,

Just saw notice of your show. Congratulations! You're well deserving of a one man show.

Ever since you contacted me about the 8x10 color film, I've followed and enjoyed your posts.
Your work carries its own "signature" and quietly stands out when posted here.

I'm happy for you and look forward to seeing the show in person.

Regards,

Dennis Dilmaghani

johnmsanderson
10-Sep-2014, 11:10
Struan, Dennis, thank you for the kind words.

SMBooth
11-Sep-2014, 01:19
Thank you Jim. -- Shane please feel free to give me a shout when you are in the city.
Will do John

johnmsanderson
14-Jan-2015, 15:16
Some press we received for the show within the past few months including some exhibition views:

http://youtu.be/bDE7zZMwxAw

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Railroad-Landscapes-Exhibition_New-York-274699641.html

The original Feb 1st closing is being extended.

Timothy Blomquist
14-Jan-2015, 18:38
Ever since I saw the large format railroad images of O. Winston Link, I have always had an interest in these kind of images, even if not taken at night with large strobe arrays. I wish I was closer. Will there ever be a book in the works for the future?

johnmsanderson
14-Jan-2015, 20:14
I hope so Tim! Have you ever seen the work of Jim Shaughnessy? He did some night images as well around the same time as Link.

http://www.railphoto-art.org/ might be of interest to you!

Timothy Blomquist
15-Jan-2015, 07:29
John, I was not aware of Shaughnessy. I will have to check him out. I have looked at your website and you have some very interesting images. It's neat how the RR tracks create a thread through the various environments. It's not the locomotives you see but the "road" itself.

I have always been fascinated by the railroad lines that went through the northern plains of Minnesota, the Dakotas and further west. At that time, every 12-15 miles the railroad company laid out plats on virgin prairie for towns where no one lived yet. Settlement followed these railroad crews and railroad town lots and farms near the tracks were handled like homesteads. Some of these towns died out and everyone is gone. In some of these places, the tracks are gone as well, and all you have left is an empty area where the railroad once passed.

My great grandparents came from Sweden in 1882 and settle in South Dakota Territory and took advantage of this railroad land. They got their first homesteads within 5 miles of one of these railroad created settlements.

johnmsanderson
15-Jan-2015, 09:47
John, I was not aware of Shaughnessy. I will have to check him out. I have looked at your website and you have some very interesting images. It's neat how the RR tracks create a thread through the various environments. It's not the locomotives you see but the "road" itself.

Thank you! Yes for a long time I photographed the trains but I found interest in using the track's geometry as a visual motif throughout instead of the train.


I have always been fascinated by the railroad lines that went through the northern plains of Minnesota, the Dakotas and further west. At that time, every 12-15 miles the railroad company laid out plats on virgin prairie for towns where no one lived yet. Settlement followed these railroad crews and railroad town lots and farms near the tracks were handled like homesteads. Some of these towns died out and everyone is gone. In some of these places, the tracks are gone as well, and all you have left is an empty area where the railroad once passed.

From what I heard it is gorgeous up there. God's country. I want to photograph this aspect of the railroad after having worked a lot in the urban northeast and midwest. Much of the old Milwaukee Road (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific) is torn up from the Daktos to Seattle. Infrastructure remains, such as old substations, tunnels, and bridges but no tracks. https://nosleinad6.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/waiting-for-a-train/


My great grandparents came from Sweden in 1882 and settle in South Dakota Territory and took advantage of this railroad land. They got their first homesteads within 5 miles of one of these railroad created settlements.

This is amazing. Thanks for sharing!!

Racer X 69
27-Feb-2015, 14:43
Nice work John, and congratulations on the exhibition too!

Kimberly Anderson
27-Feb-2015, 15:34
Congratulations! Love the 4x10!