David PlowdenDavid Plowden
Vanishing Point : Fifty Years of Photography
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Current format, Book, 2007, First edition, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsA treasury of black-and-white photography as created throughout the past half century is a collection of the creator's tributes to American industry, small communities, and noble structures on the brink of being lost to modernism.
A treasury of black-and-white photography as created throughout the past half century is a collection of the creator's tributes to American industry, small communities, and noble structures on the brink of being lost to modernism. By the photographer of Bridges: The Spans of North America.
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, 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 that he must not just make a record, but confer a kind of immortality on certain aspects of American civilization before they vanish.” As Walker Evans gave us the first half of the twentieth century, David Plowden has given us the second. David Plowden: Vanishing Point represents the best of this magnificent body of work.
Evincing a profound nostalgia for heavy industry and hard work over half a century of American history, Plowden's b&w photos monumentalize scenes in steel mills, onboard ships, of bridges, at ports, and in the rural landscape, where the subjects include fields, weather, and magnificent barns and grain elevators. The photos are presented in full-page plates of the best quality in an oversize format (12.75x11.25"). Includes an autobiographical essay by the photographer and a timeline of his career. Not indexed. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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, 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 that he must not just make a record, but confer a kind of immortality on certain aspects of American civilization before they vanish.” As Walker Evans gave us the first half of the twentieth century, David Plowden has given us the second. David Plowden: Vanishing Point represents the best of this magnificent body of work.
“No one has photographed America as has David Plowden. ... He is one of the great artists of our time.”—David McCullough
David Plowden: Vanishing Point
A treasury of black-and-white photography as created throughout the past half century is a collection of the creator's tributes to American industry, small communities, and noble structures on the brink of being lost to modernism. By the photographer of Bridges: The Spans of North America.
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, 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 that he must not just make a record, but confer a kind of immortality on certain aspects of American civilization before they vanish.” As Walker Evans gave us the first half of the twentieth century, David Plowden has given us the second. David Plowden: Vanishing Point represents the best of this magnificent body of work.
Evincing a profound nostalgia for heavy industry and hard work over half a century of American history, Plowden's b&w photos monumentalize scenes in steel mills, onboard ships, of bridges, at ports, and in the rural landscape, where the subjects include fields, weather, and magnificent barns and grain elevators. The photos are presented in full-page plates of the best quality in an oversize format (12.75x11.25"). Includes an autobiographical essay by the photographer and a timeline of his career. Not indexed. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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, 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 that he must not just make a record, but confer a kind of immortality on certain aspects of American civilization before they vanish.” As Walker Evans gave us the first half of the twentieth century, David Plowden has given us the second. David Plowden: Vanishing Point represents the best of this magnificent body of work.
“No one has photographed America as has David Plowden. ... He is one of the great artists of our time.”—David McCullough
David Plowden: Vanishing Point
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