[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects
FWIW - the book is briefly mentioned in the new Popular Photography - "inFocus" October 1997. Bulfinch Press has some good press people! The cover alone is extremely intriguing for this high plains junkie! David Lehlbach --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1965
