Gary Saretzky Photo Books
Russia. Red Express: The Greatest Rail Journey from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China.
Russia. Red Express: The Greatest Rail Journey from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China.
Prentice Hall, 1990. Text by Michael Cordell. Photographs in color by Peter Solness. First U.S. edition. Hardcover with protected dust jacket, like new. Based on a television series produced by Captured Live Australia. Documents a 15,000 kilometer train ride, including 10,000 on the Trans-Siberian Express across the Soviet Union, the world’s longest railroad ride. The train traveled from East Berlin through Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic States and the USSR,to Beijing and the Great Wall. Cities included Berlin, Prague, Krakow, Vilnius, Leningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Vladviostok, Suifenbe, and Beijing. Includes statement by the photographer Solness, who shot with Kodachrome, about the challenges he overcame to complete this project, including working in extremely cold conditions. 255 pages. Previously published in Australia by Simon and Schuster. Based in Australia, Solness subsequently became a specialist in using light painting for photography.