Colin Gifford - "I the wink of an eye" - 12th December . Kidderminster Railway Museum

The colour photography of Colin Gifford - "In the wink of an eye"

Saturday December 12th Film Show 7.30pm at Kidderminster Railway Museum at Station Approach, Comberton Hill, Kidderminster, Worcs. DY10 1QX
01562 825316
http://www.krm.org.uk/

Colin Gifford is considered by many to have been the pioneer of a new genre of railway photographers. Instead of the more traditional three-quarter front view of engines and the trains they hauled, Colin was acutely aware of the relationship of the train with the natural and man-made landscape, and the people who worked with them. His first book Decline of Steam, published in 1965, was, and still is, regarded as one of the most influential books of railway photography, in which he used his fine art training to good effect to perfect creative compositions and capture breath-taking atmosphere. Further books followed - Each a Glimpse...(1970), ...and gone for ever (1994) which also depicted the nation's steam railways, or what was left of them, through the eyes of an artist. His photographs were recognised in 1994 by the Royal Mail which published a set of five postage stamps featuring five of his images.
Think of Colin Gifford and one normally thinks of the stunning black and white images that appear in his books. What has not been seen in public before is his colour work, and now, after some forty years, Colin has agreed to show some of his colour images that convey much the same sort of artistry as his black and white photographs.
This is a very rare opportunity to see the photographic work of a national household name. Don't miss it! By the way, it will be mince pies at the half time interval!