Roger Puta was a prolific railroad photographer and railfan. He was born in 1944 and grew up in Chicago. He worked for railroads and lived in DC and San Francisco. He photographed trains and streetcars all across America, Canada, and Mexico. He and his partner ran a bus touring company. His photos are very distinct, with a more muted color pallete and pictures that sometimes almost appear painted. He took more than 5,000 photos of trains during his lifetime. He often goes unsung as a gay railroad photographer, and is not as recognized as he should be. He died in 1990 at age 46. Discussing his death at a young age was off limits. Puta died of AIDS, a disease that was purposely ignored by the Reagan administration. Puta deserved to live, and was taken too soon.
Please go view his works. I will be posting many more pictures to c/urbanism but I’m including some links here to his work.
More on Roger:
His longtime friend Marty Bernard (who uploaded the pictures) discussing Roger
The Twitter thread that inspired this post
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Edit: Rest in power, Roger
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after reading the megathread text I realize this is in bad taste, rest in power Roger Puta :07:
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my dad talked to some dude who thinks that planned obsolescence is a government plot. why the fuck are americans so dumb
He means that it is real but it’s the government causing things to break easily. Not that it’s the companies intentionally making shitty products that will break in x number of years.
