First edition of David Plowden: Vanishing Point by David Plowden (2007).

First impression.

Large format hardback in fine condition. Dust jacket shows some minor shelf wear around the edges, one tear held together by archival tape, and some faint marks to the back. Very slight crushing to the bottom of the spine, which has faintly affected the page block. Otherwise pages clean and binding firm. 

11.50 x 12.75 x 1.50 inches

340 pages

About

This comprehensive 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 of the 20th century. David Plowden’s black-and-white images reveal his great respect for man’s ingenuity and honest work, documenting a disappearing landscape of industry, small towns, technology, 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.