Description
‘The Atmospheric Southern’ will take you on a journey around the Southern, viewed through the cameras of a dozen or more eminent photographers. Starting at Victoria, we will go clockwise around Kent, Surrey and Sussex, before moving westwards to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, the West of England and then back up the South Western main line to Waterloo, finally ending at Nine Elms shed just before the demise of steam in July 1967. There is also an extended feature on the railways around Redhill – a strategically important railway crossroads. Mostly steam, the subject matter includes a few diesels and electrics, while the extended captions give details of so much more visible in the pictures.
A fabulous and much anticipated follow on to the two previous releases of George Heiron’s delightful photographic talent, already displayed in the same large format style within Atmospheric Western and more recently within George Heiron’s Travels Midland & Western (both still available here).
Proponents of quality photographs will be well aware of how George Heiron was a master of photographic composition, the train – or engine – just part of the overall image and as such we are treated to a record of the period in question; the 1950s and early 1960s. George was not alone and here the publishers explore the collections of many likeminded master cameramen of the steam era.
The format is the same through all three volumes very much akin to the likes of Each a Glimpse and Gone Forever from that other master of the lens Colin Gifford.
160 pages hardback.
