J. Parker Lamb, Noted Transition Era Photographer, Dies at 91

J. Parker Lamb, Noted Transition Era Photographer, Dies at 91

J. Parker Lamb, a masterful black & white image maker long considered “one of the deans of post-World War II railroad photography,” died at his home in Austin, Texas, on Friday. He was 91 years old.  Lamb was a son of the South, and he captured its railroads like few others before or after. Born in Boligee, Alabama, in 1933, Lamb moved with his family to Meridian, Mississippi, in 1938 when he was four years old. In Meridian, he found his passion…