David Plowden - Bibliography

Books – photographs and text by David Plowden

1960s

1970s

Lincoln and His America, Viking, 1970; alternate selection, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1971
The Hand of Man on America, Smithsonian, 1971; paperback edition Chatham, 1973; 2nd printing 1974
Floor of the Sky: the Great Plains, Sierra Club, 1972
Bridges: the Spans of North America, Viking, 1974; alternate selection, Macmillan Book Club, 1975; reprint editions: hardcover W.W. Norton, 1984; paperback 1988
Commonplace, E.P.Dutton, 1974
Tugboat, Macmillan, 1976

1980s

1990s

End of an Era: The Last of the Great Lakes Steamboats, W.W. Norton, 1992
Small Town America, Harry N. Abrams, 1994; Introduction by David G. McCullough
Imprints David Plowden A Retrospective, Bulfinch Press, 1997; Introduction by Alan Trachtenberg

2000s

Bridges: the Spans of North America, Revised Edition W.W. Norton, 2002
David Plowden: The American Barn, W.W. Norton, 2003
A Handful of Dust: Disappearing America, W. W. Norton, March 2006
David Plowden Vanishing Point 50 Years of Photography, W.W. Norton, October 2007; Introduction by Steve Edwards

2010s

Work in Progress - David Plowden Heartland (current working title), W.W. Norton, October 2010

Books – co-authored and photographs by David Plowden

1970s

Nantucket, Viking Press, 1970 with Patricia Coffin
Cape May to Montauk, Viking Press, 1973 with Nelson P. Falorp
Desert and Plain, the Mountains and the River, E.P. Dutton, 1975 with Berton Roueche
The Iron Road, Four Winds Press, 1978 with Richard Snow

Books – multiple authors, photographs exclusively by David Plowden

1960s

1970s

The States and the Nations:New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, and Vermont editions, W. W. Norton & Co. and the American Association for State and Local History, 1977–1981
Wayne County: The Aesthetic Heritage of a Rural Area, Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, 1979

1980s

Books – David Plowden as contributor

1960s

1970s

Mr. Jefferson, Architect, Viking Press, 1973, selected photographs
Railroads in America, American Heritage, 1975, selected photographs
History Cast in Metal, published by the Cast Metal Institute, 1976, selected photographs
Industrial Archaeology, Penguin Books, 1976, selected photographs
The Great West: Real Ideal, University of Colorado Press, 1977, selected photographs
Bruce Caton's America, American Heritage, 1979, selected photographs
The Photograph Collectors Guide, published by the New York Graphics Society, 1979, selected photographs

1980s

The Gallery of World Photography/the Country, Shueish Publishing Company, 1983, introduction and selected photographs
The Gallery of World Photography/the City, Shueish Publishing Company, 1983, introduction and selected photographs
Photography as Fine Art, E.P. Dutton, 1983, selected photographs
An Open Land: Photographs of the Middle West 1852-1982, Open Lands Institute, 1983, selected photographs
Landscape, Gallery of World Photography and Thames & Hudson, 1984, preface and selected photographs
Shaping Space, Kirkhauser, 1988, selected photographs
We Go There on the Train, published by the National Council on the Aging, 1989, selected photographs

1990s–present

The Changing Face of America, published by Prentice Hall, 1991, selected photographs
Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, Smithsonian Press, 1996, selected photographs
Photography's Multiple Roles, published by the Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1998, selected photographs
Predictions for the Next Millennium, published by Andrews McMeel, 1998, selected photographs
Recovering the Prairie, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999, selected photographs
Brooklyn, A State of Mind, Workman Publishing, 2001, selected photographs
Professional Photography Photographing Building, published by RotoVision SA, 2001, selected photographs

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