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Plowden's photographs are characterized by their stark detail. In the steel mill photos, he attributed this to shots he would overexpose and under develop. On his subject matter — steam engines, small town Main
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collection and repackaged a photo book of the same name, which chronicles steel from its start as taconite pellet mines in
Minnesota to the blast furnaces of Gary, Indiana, and from its shipment across the Great Lakes to the demise of the mills in places like Lackawanna, NY.
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middle ground between two eras, with one eye on the 19th century and the other on the 21st ... all across
America we have left abandoned, like carcasses after the feast, that which only yesterday was state-of-the-art invention."
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in 1955. After working for the Great
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Four Winds Press, 1978. Text by Plowden and with Richard Snow.
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Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden.
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End of an Era: The Last of the Great Lakes Steamboats.
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Wayne County: The Aesthetic Heritage of a Rural Area.
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Revised Edition. New York City: W. W. Norton, 2002.
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