Hi guys and gals,
I'm a few days behind in reading the latest Pop Photo, the October
1997 issue. But on page 22 there is a short review of David Plowden's new
book "Imprints." Many on the list may find the book intriguing, so the
review is reprinted in its entirety here:
Imprints, by David Plowden. Bulfinch Press, New York, 204 pages, hardcover,
$60.00
If Ansel Adams had concentrated on the urban landscape, something like
Plowden's images would have been the result. Plowden started in 1959 as an
assistant to noted railroad photographer O. Winston Link. He moved on to
grain elevators, factories, houses--the interiors and exteriors, the parts
and the whole, the people at work--evidence of the class of man with nature
in urban and rural landscapes. Some images show the desolation of broken
towns and factories. Others show the beauty of texture and pattern in the
architecture and the tools of a rapidly disappearing industrial America. And
every image carries a trainload of emotional freight. If you want to study
the possible in larger-than-life b&w still life photography, here's the
textbook--Paul Suidzinski, managin editor Popular Photography, October 1997
issue, page 22.
....Mike Del Vecchio
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