Wednesday, March 26, 2014, Bloomfield,
NJ – The North Jersey Chapter of the National Railway Historical
Society will host the renowned International Transportation Photojournalist
Joseph M. Calisi for a two-hour presentation about mass transportation in
northern and central Italy at 7:25 pm. The focus of his Powerpoint presentation
are images that were taken during the fifteen-day Electric Railroader’s
Association (ERA) ‘European Extravaganza’ this past May, 2012.
The photography shown is
spectacular in that the images are totally iconic of the places where they were
taken as everyday tourist locales were included to show that transportation is
in the fabric of everyone’s daily lives – in effect, the images themselves told
a story that supplemented the discussion at hand.
The official ERA trip began in
Torino on May 10th, 2012 with a welcoming dinner and was ‘bookended’
with a farewell dinner in Rome on May 25th. The group of 34 men and
women chased after high-speed Frecciarossas, trams, ropeways and other forms of
Italian mass transportation. The presentation could not only be summed up as ‘a
snapshot’ of the trip but as a thorough discussion that included history,
economics, artwork and design.
The photographic essay had a
special surprise – the public debut of his unique website, JosephMCalisi.com
which features iconic images taken in Italy at that time.
The
North Jersey Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society is located at:
84 Broad
St (Bloomfield Civic Center)
Bloomfield,
NJ
(parking
is free after 6 pm)
Media editors: Mr. Calisi can be
reached for interviews via e-mail at JMCalisi@verizon.net.
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