Richard Steinheimer
Richard Steinheim ( born August 23, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois; † 4 May, 2011 Sacramento, California ) was an American railroad photographer and writer. He often referred to as the Ansel Adams of railroad photography.
Life
After his parents divorced, he moved in 1935 with his mother to Phoenix ( Arizona). 1939 the family moved to Glendale ( California). In 1945 he started with a Kodak Brownie with baby photography. From the beginning, he focused on mainly on railway shots. From 1947 he used a Speed Graphic camera.
From 1949 he studied at the San Francisco College among others, Joe Rosenthal and at San Jose State University. In 1950 he worked at Glendale News as a press photographer. His military service, he graduated with the U.S. Navy from 1951 to 1953 as a photojournalist. After that, he continued his work as a web photographer. He focused primarily on the western United States.
From 1956 to 1962 he worked as a photojournalist for the Marin Independent Journal, after which he was self-employed. In 1963 his first book at Kalmbach Publishing. His first exhibition was in 1965 in Grand Central Terminal in New York. In the magazine Trains published this publishing 1948-2011 over 400 of his photos. As a photographer operates, among others, also for aerospace companies in Silicon Valley.
In 1983 he received the Senior Achievement Award in Photography of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society.
He was married to his second wife, the photographer and journalist Shirley Burman since 1984. In 2000 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. In 2007 he suffered a stroke.