{"id":5536,"date":"2014-02-06T05:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:52:00","slug":"daily-post-railcar-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-railcar-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Post: Railcar Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sayre, Pennsylvania, August 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5534\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/02\/06\/daily-post-railcar-graffiti\/railcar-graffiti-at-sayre-3-img_4197\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5534\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-railcar-graffiti\/railcar-graffiti-at-sayre-3-img_4197\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?fit=800%2C533\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;258.29&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Brian Solomon&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;:08:24 16:44:&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;15666787.719298&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;3.5230860402118&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Railcar Graffiti at Sayre-3 IMG_4197\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sayre, Pennsylvania, August 2010.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?fit=709%2C472\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5534\" alt=\"Sayre, Pennsylvania, August 2010.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?resize=205%2C136 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?resize=709%2C472 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?resize=450%2C300 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sayre, Pennsylvania, August 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5535\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2014\/02\/06\/daily-post-railcar-graffiti\/railcar-graffiti-at-sayre-img_4199\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5535\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-railcar-graffiti\/railcar-graffiti-at-sayre-img_4199\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-IMG_4199.jpg?fit=800%2C533\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;258.29&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Brian Solomon&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;:08:24 16:45:&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;14748183.785714&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;3.5230860383739&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Railcar Graffiti at Sayre IMG_4199\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sayre, Pennsylvania, August 2010.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-IMG_4199.jpg?fit=709%2C472\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-IMG_4199.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5535\" alt=\"Sayre, Pennsylvania, August 2010.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-IMG_4199.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-IMG_4199.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-IMG_4199.jpg?resize=205%2C136 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-IMG_4199.jpg?resize=709%2C472 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-IMG_4199.jpg?resize=450%2C300 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sayre, Pennsylvania, August 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watching trains today, it seems that graffiti is omnipresent. Hardly a freight passes without heavily tagged cars in consist.<\/p>\n<p>Railcar graffiti isn\u2019t a recent phenomena. Traditional chalked tags have appeared on cars for generations. I recall photographing a tag that read \u2018Edward Steichen knew\u2019 back in the mid-1980s, and I first noticed spray-painted graffiti on the New York Subways in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the proliferation of large colorful spray-painted murals and haphazard spray tagging has only become widespread on mainline trains in the last couple of decades.<\/p>\n<p>While freight cars are the most common canvases, I\u2019ve see locomotives and passenger cars tagged as well.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is the phenomena isolated to the United States. Train graffiti is a worldwide occurrence. I\u2019ve photographed heavily tagged trains in Poland, Belgium, and (wouldn\u2019t you guess?) Italy! (Among other places).<\/p>\n<p>Almost every photographer I\u2019ve met has an opinion on graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to leave a comment? Tracking the light is interested in your opinion(s). 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Watching trains today, it seems that graffiti is omnipresent. Hardly a freight passes without heavily tagged cars in consist. Railcar graffiti isn\u2019t a recent phenomena. Traditional chalked tags have appeared on cars for generations. I recall photographing a tag that read \u2018Edward Steichen knew\u2019 back in the mid-1980s, and I first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-railcar-graffiti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Post: Railcar Graffiti<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3786,1477,1963,575,213,525,1958,1960,1964,1957,7,85,1959,1961,200,1470,1962],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Railcar-Graffiti-at-Sayre-3-IMG_4197.jpg?fit=800%2C533","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1ri","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}