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Book Review: Vanishing Point by David Plowden
David Plowden: Vanishing Point
Fifty Years of Photography by David Plowden
W.W. Norton & Company, October 2007
340 pages/hardcover/280 duotone photographs/ $100.00
Pulling the cellophane wrap off of David Plowden: Vanishing Point feels like blowing away years of dust from an old box of keepsakes. Inside, the images taken by the prolific master photographer David Plowden have been righteously preserved. Plowden deserves a big heap of recognition with the publication of this tribute to his examination of America over the last half century. Journalist Steve Edwards reveals much we didn’t know about Plowden in the book’s introduction. For example, there is the impressive fact that he studied with Minor White, but what is more informative is to discover that when they first met, Plowden was so intimidated by White’s room displaying works by Edward Weston and Paul Caponigro, “I almost turned around and fled,” he says.
