“Everyone who works on trains knows they have personalities, they’re like people. They have their own mysteries,” wrote novelist Sam Starbuck. Phoenix photographer (and frequent PHOENIX contributor) Mark Lipczynski has spent most of his life pursuing these mysteries. In his recent photo book/zine, Chasing Trains in Cars ($20), Lipczynski corrals photographs he’s taken of trains during his 30 years of road trips across the U.S. “All of them demonstrate a dependence on transportation as a means to shorten distance and accelerate time,” he writes. Through Lipczynski’s skilled lens, they’re dynamic portraits of metal, landscape and sky.
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