Imprints: David Plowden: a Retrospective - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821223232 ISBN 13: 9780821223239

Publisher: Import US, 1999

Synopsis

From small towns and cityscapes to railroads and bridges, David Plowden has devoted his career to memorializing the vestiges of America's industrial and rural past. In his photographs and writings, he explores the beauty, power, blight, and significance of these once commonplace icons and vistas - and captures the visual texture of a bygone America on the verge of vanishing. His work is clear-eyed, rigorous, and ultimately ambivalent rather than nostalgic; steel mills, for instance, are "at once magnificent and apocalyptic - a definitive expression of mankind's inherently productive and creative, as well as destructive, nature." This book, published in conjunction with a series of retrospective exhibitions across America, looks back over Plowden's entire career and presents the very best of his work.

About this title

Synopsis:

From trains and bridges to small town steel mills and steamboats, David Plowden has devoted his career to memorializing the vestiges of America's industrial and rural past. This volume looks back over his career, selecting the best of his work recording the struggle between civilization and nature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Import US
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0821223232
• ISBN 13: 9780821223239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204