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A Handful of Dust: Disappearing America | 
 enlarge | Author: David Plowden
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 318110
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 9.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0393060330
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.9973
EAN: 9780393060331
ASIN: 0393060330
Publication Date: December 5, 2005
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Condition: STILL SEALED 3A5
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Product Description
An elegy for our changing landscape by a master photographer.
Since making his earliest documentary photographs in the 1950s, David Plowden has honored those proud structures and places that America has discarded—from brawny commercial and industrial centers to small towns and farms. He reveres the honest work and spirit that built them. But the scene has changed much in the last five decades, and what's left of the honesty of small communities and the working of the land is all but gone, dealt a death blow by outsourcing, conglomerization, and our incessant drive to buy cheap at any cost. The America of these photographs is a bittersweet reminder of things once cherished and a life no longer possible. Deserted Main Streets and crumbling facades stare at us blindly. Abandoned houses and buildings reach back to ground. Plowden's work is a sad symphony—incomparably and irresistibly beautiful, while reminding us of our loss. 77 duotone photographs.
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A Handful of Dust: A wonderful photographic documentary October 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
David Plowden continues his trend of excellently photographing the America of times past, providing us with superbly photographed subjects and commentary on our fading history. For those in love with a kinder, gentler America and who grew up in a small town like myself, these vignettes will help you preserve your fondest memories, yet, will leave you with a feeling of sadness at the passage of time.
This book should be in the library of any serious documentary, architectural or other type of photographer.
Another Plowden Delight October 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
David Plowden, in "A Handful of Dust: Disappearing America," continues his remarkable success in being one of the most significant, contemporary visual historians of America's fast disappearing past. His evocative images of marginal, often abandoned and disintegrating buildings and structures poignantly reminds us both of the transient nature of human endeavor and of the necessity of such endeavor in every age upon which society depends. In addition to providing grist for philosophical insights and musings, his meticulously composed images offer the viewer strong, black and white patterns and details that invite closer scrutiny and discovery.
Each page is a whole chapter June 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a gorgeous book. If a picture is normally worth a thousand words, Plowden's images are each whole chapters. They convey so much both by what they show and by what they leave out. Skillfully taken and carefully printed, they contain a sumptuous wealth of detail which forces the viewer to linger on each image and contemplate it. Plowden is an American master.
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