Rudy Mailander Photos Added to Revs Digital Library

Rudy Mailander was a busy man. Although his long career in the automotive world covered writing, publicity and business affairs, it is his motor sports photography that endures. One of the greatest photographers of the early sports car revival in Europe, Mailander traveled the race circuits extensively from 1950 – 1955, capturing the action and the people – who always seemed to respond singularly to his camera lens. The Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. announced that the Mailander photo collection is being released to the Revs Digital Library. There it will be in the searchable database of the Institute’s extensive digital library at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

This release will add some 40,000 images to the library, which is already rich with tens of thousands of photos from eleven different collections. Mailander’s photos, which were part of the Karl Ludvigsen collection, are mainly 35 mm black and whites that covered everything from races to motor shows to rallies. Whether it was the Monte Carlo Grand Prix, the Geneva Auto Show or the production line of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, Mailander was there with his Leica camera, recording the event.