David Plowden: Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393062540)

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.

Author: Steve Edwards
ISBN-10: 0393062546
ISBN-13: 9780393062540
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2007
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 5.94lbs
Size: 11.26h x 12.52w x 1.23d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2007 pg. 24
Entertainment Weekly 12/14/2007 pg. 70
Library Journal 12/15/2007 pg. 114
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2008 pg. 6
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 275