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From trains and bridges to small towns, steel mills and steamboats, photographer David Plowden has devoted his career to memorializing the vestiges of America's industrial and rural past. In his stunning photographs and perceptive writings he explores the beauty, power, blight and significance of these once commonplace icons and vistas. He also captures the visual texture of a bygone America on the verge of vanishing. This richly printed book looks back over Plowden's entire career and presents the very best of his clear-eyed, rigorous photographs, which brilliantly record the struggle between civilization and nature and teach us all how photography works in the hands of a modern master.
