About this title: This beautiful volume is both a tribute to and a celebration of the photographer who, more than anyone else, has produced a visual record of man's mark on the American land over the last half-century. David Plowden's beautiful black-and-white images reveal his great respect for man's ingenuity and honest work, documenting a disappearing landscape of industry, small towns, wonderful devices and noble structures.David McCullough writes, "Plowden has produced some of the most powerful photographs we have of man-made America. He is propelled, driven, by a sense of time running out and the feeling ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN-13:9780393062540ISBN:0393062546
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780393062540ISBN:0393062546
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York City, NY
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780393062540ISBN:0393062546
Description: Signed by Author. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 340 pages. As New in As New Dust Jacket. Massive retrospective monograph on the photographer's life-work. One of the most important photography books of the year 2007. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. A brilliant production by David Plowden and John Bernstein Design New York: Oversize-volume format in wide oblong shape. Handsome ribbed hard boards with metallic-silver ... read more
Description: Acceptable jacket. Acceptable condition. No interior writing or highlighitng. Has coverwear damage wear. Small tear in binding. David Plowden: Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography (Hardcover) By David Plowden; Steve Edwards; Richard Snow Product Description "No one has photographed America as has David Plowden....He is one of the great artists of our time. "? David McCullough This beautiful volume is both a tribute to and a celebration of the photographer who, more than anyone else, has ... read more
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. "No one has photographed America as has David Plowden....He is one of the great artists of our time. "— David McCullough This beautiful volume is both a tribute to and a celebration of the photographer who, more than anyone else, has given us a visual record of our mark on the land over the last half-century. David Plowden's beautiful ... read more
Description: New. "No one has photographed America as has David Plowden....He is one of the great artists of our time. "— David McCullough This beautiful volume is both a tribute to and a celebration of the photographer who, more than anyone else, has given us a visual record of our mark on the land over the last half-century. David Plowden's beautiful black-and-white images reveal his great respect for man's ingenuity and honest work, documenting a disappearing landscape of industry, small towns, ... read more
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"A fascinating book of photographs from the 1950s to 2005. The most interesting are of city scenes, small towns, grain elevators, etc., from the American midwest in the 1960s and early '70s, including some from New York State. It's curious, the assumption that we make of things being "worse" now, more litter, more dilapidation, more poverty(?) more pollution, etc., all of which were much worse in the recent past. The mundane are miraculous when photographs are done right."
"A career retrospective of one of America's greatest photographers ... and hopefully not the last book by Plowden, though apparently he has put his camera away, unwilling to photograph anymore, though at least he's taken up computers, and is starting to digitize his negatives. This beautiful book covers most of the significant subjects of his career ... factories, steam engines, boats, small towns, rural areas, interesting characters. All black-and-white, all beautifully and poignantly shot, his photos are historical artifacts in themselves, as they capture a way of life dying away, or capturing a technology at the final moment of use. Sometimes stark, sometimes raw, never anything but beautiful, his photos speak as eloquently as his stories behind the photos."
"Some of the most amazing photos I've ever seen. I got a chance to see them up close at a gallery a few weeks ago. Outstanding. Plowden is a bit full of himself, but with pictures like these, I guess that's allowed."
"This absolutely gorgeous book of photography far exceeded my expectations. Exploring the dying industries of steam engines and widespread train travel, boat ferry routes, abandoned coal mine towns, steel factories, and small town hardware stores, Plowden gives each shot the lingering eye of someone who knows a way of life is at an end. However, the photographs never veer into a romanticization of this past. Much of this work is dirty, and it is portrayed as such, but there is a beauty in the patina of chipped paint and scarred steel."
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