SUBWAY SNAPSHOTS and ELEVATED EPITAPHS VOL I - BRT/BMT/IND - THE NORMAN ROLFE COLLECTION and THE UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER - 512 PAGES (release date October 11, 2014) see upcoming events
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This book is a presentation of subway snapshots of the New York City Subway System. The photographs have been printed from original negatives. They are all black and white. There were several types of films used, some 35mm but mostly 120 and 620. The 120 negative is a 2 1/4 inch x 2 1/4 inch size and the 620 is 2 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches.
The negatives were processed using a high resolution scanner and transparency adapter. The quality has been enhanced to insure the optimum results. The cameras used are unknown. Some of the photographs were taken with “box” cameras, having a fixed lens and aperture. Unfortunately this results in a less than desirable quality. The subject matter of these photographs however, captures scenes that have long disappeared. Many are truly one of a kind snapshots.
Some of the photos are cropped to fit the best size relative to the subject matter. These original negatives are part of the author’s collection and have never been printed before. The original photographer is unknown.
All of these negatives were stored in individual envelopes. The captions including the dates for the photographs presented in this book have been derived from these envelopes.
This book is arranged in car number order, with some exceptions as noted. The goal is to show each individual car and sometimes the photographs can be a bit repetitious. Some of the photographs are better than others and we tried not to exclude many and to print the collection in its entirety. Most of these photographs were taken by Norman Rolfe in the 1940’s and printed from digital scans of the original negatives. Many of the envelopes containing these negatives had only a car number and date.
Norman Rolfe was a retired electrical engineer who became a citizen advocate for public transit in the San Francisco Bay Area. He passed on January 15, 2010. Mr. Rolfe traveled many cities throughout the United States (and abroad) taking countless photographs of various transit systems. There are some “copy negatives” from his collection dating to an earlier time and they are presented here as well because they are part of the “Norman Rolfe Collection”.
The unknown photographer is a series of photographs presented here from the collection of Douglas Grotjahn.
All the photographs in this book have been professionally processed and presented. They were sized and cropped for the format of this book. Prints are available at www.GoodStuffNowLLC.com.
We hope you enjoy this book!
The negatives were processed using a high resolution scanner and transparency adapter. The quality has been enhanced to insure the optimum results. The cameras used are unknown. Some of the photographs were taken with “box” cameras, having a fixed lens and aperture. Unfortunately this results in a less than desirable quality. The subject matter of these photographs however, captures scenes that have long disappeared. Many are truly one of a kind snapshots.
Some of the photos are cropped to fit the best size relative to the subject matter. These original negatives are part of the author’s collection and have never been printed before. The original photographer is unknown.
All of these negatives were stored in individual envelopes. The captions including the dates for the photographs presented in this book have been derived from these envelopes.
This book is arranged in car number order, with some exceptions as noted. The goal is to show each individual car and sometimes the photographs can be a bit repetitious. Some of the photographs are better than others and we tried not to exclude many and to print the collection in its entirety. Most of these photographs were taken by Norman Rolfe in the 1940’s and printed from digital scans of the original negatives. Many of the envelopes containing these negatives had only a car number and date.
Norman Rolfe was a retired electrical engineer who became a citizen advocate for public transit in the San Francisco Bay Area. He passed on January 15, 2010. Mr. Rolfe traveled many cities throughout the United States (and abroad) taking countless photographs of various transit systems. There are some “copy negatives” from his collection dating to an earlier time and they are presented here as well because they are part of the “Norman Rolfe Collection”.
The unknown photographer is a series of photographs presented here from the collection of Douglas Grotjahn.
All the photographs in this book have been professionally processed and presented. They were sized and cropped for the format of this book. Prints are available at www.GoodStuffNowLLC.com.
We hope you enjoy this book!
