On the Move: Great Transportation Photographs from Life

Book Description
Introduction by Daniel Okrent A lively look at modes of travel, On the Move takes a nostalgic journey through twentieth-century transportation as documented by LIFE and other photographers in nearly one hundred striking images complemented by excerpts from the century's authors. Airplanes, parachutes, trains, bicycles, rickshaws, sailboats, ocean liners, automobiles, motorcycles and even the Zeppelin: the modes of transportation have multiplied dramatically over the past century. Many of the great LIFE photographers - among them, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carl Mydans, Andreas Feininger, Margaret Bourke-White, and George Silk - captured memorable images of these ingenious inventions that enable us to get from one place to another. These irresistible photographs of speed and motion are accompanied by excerpts from twentieth-century authors, including Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Ernest Hemingway, Katharine Anne Porter, John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac."

About the Author
"Maryann Kornely is Director of th LIFE Gallery of Photography. Jennie Hirschfeld is curator at the LIFE Gallery of Photography."


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Airplanes, parachutes, trains, bicycles, rickshaws, sailboats, ocean liners, automobiles, motorcycles and even the Zeppelin: the modes of transportation have multiplied dramatically over the past century. Many of the great LIFE photographers - among them, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carl Mydans, Andreas Feininger, Margaret Bourke-White, and George Silk - captured memorable images of these ingenious inventions that enable us to get from one place to another. These irresistible photographs of speed and motion are accompanied by excerpts from twentieth-century authors, including Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Ernest Hemingway, Katharine Anne Porter, John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac.


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