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1983 Museum of Science and Industry; Chicago, Illinois
1983 Houston Center for Photography; Houston, Texas
1983 Museum of Contemporary Photography; Columbia
College, Chicago, Illinois
1983 The Madison Art Center; Madison, Wisconsin
1996 B & W and Color Photographs; John McEnroe Gal-
lery, New York, New York
1998 Trains that Passed in the Night: The Railroad Photo-
graphs of O. Winston Link; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Nebraska, and traveling
1998 Vintage Contact Prints from the Early Years 1937–
1952 ; Robert Mann Gallery, New York, New York
2003 Steam Power Railroad Photographs of O. Winston
Link; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottes-
ville, Virginia
2004 Arrested Motion: 1950s Railroad Photographs by O.
Winston Link; Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown,
New York

Group Exhibitions

1998 UTZ: A Collected Exhibition; Lennon, Weinburg, Inc.,
New York, New York
1998 Flashback: The Fifties; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New
York, New York
2000 O. Winston Link, George Tice; Robert Klein Gallery,
Boston, Massachusetts
2000 The Steam Locomotives of 20th Century—Naotaka
Hirota and O. Winston Link; Kiyosato Museum of
Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan
2002 Photographs We Know, Iconic Images; Fahey/Klein
Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2003 Enchanted Evening; Yancey Richardson Gallery, Chel-
sea, New York

2003 Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American

Self; International Center of Photography, New York,

New York, and traveling

Selected Works

Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole, Luray, Virginia, 1956

Hotshot Eastbound, Iager Drive-In, Iager, West Virginia,

1956

Maud Bows to the ‘Virginia Creeper’ Green Cove, Virginia,

1956

The Birmingham Special Gets the Highball at Rural Retreat,

1957

Ghost Town, Stanley, Virginia, 1957

Silent Night at Seven Mile Ford, Virginia, 1957

Swimming Pool, Welch, West Virginia, 1958

Further Reading

Garver, Thomas H. ‘‘Railroad Photographs of O. Winston

Link.’’American Art Review12, no. 5 (2000).

Link, O. Winston.Ghost Trains: Railroad Photographs of

the 1950s. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum, 1983.

Link, O. Winston, and Thomas H. Garver. The Last Steam

Railroad in America: From Tidewater to Whitetop. New

York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995.

Link, O. Winston, and Rupert Martin.Night Trick: Photo-

graphs of the Norfolk & Western Railway, 1955–1960.

London: Photographers’ Gallery in conjunction with

the National Museum of Photography, Film & Televi-

sion, Bradford, and the National Railway Museum,

York, 1983.

Link, O. Winston, and Timothy Hensley.Steam, Steel, &

Stars: America’s Last Steam Railroad. New York: Harry

N. Abrams, 1987.

LINKED RING

The Linked Ring, also known as the Linked Ring
Brotherhood and officially the Brotherhood of
the Linked Ring, was a group formed in London
in May of 1892. It was composed of photo-
graphers interested in furthering their ambition
to elevate the practice of photography to that of
the other fine arts mediums such as painting or the
graphic arts. Though not synonymous with the
Pictorialism movement, many of the aims of that
movement were the aims of the Linked Ring,
especially in establishing high standards of tech-
nical quality that was greatly expressive, differen-
tiating themselves from the burgeoning numbers

of amateur photographers, and quickly develop-

ing commercial applications. Unlike Pictorialism,

the associates of the Linked Ring generally as-

pired to creating photographs that successfully

exploited the unique qualities inherent in the med-

ium and not necessarily in subservience to the

forms and conventions of painting. The aesthetic

aims of the Linked Ring, however, tend to be

blurred with those of Pictorialism due to the fact

many Pictorialists were involved in this group

along with other, later secessionist groups, par-

ticularly the American Photo-Secession (founded

in 1902).

LINK, O. WINSTON