"I have always felt that I have been standing in the middle ground between two eras, with one eye on the 19th century and the other on the 21st ... all across America we have left abandoned, like carcasses after the feast, that which only yesterday was state-of-the-art invention.”
~ David Plowden
For more than fifty years, photographer David Plowden has documented a vanishing America, driven by what he describes as “a sense of urgency to record those parts of our heritage which seem to be receding as quickly as the view from the rear of a speeding train.” Born in 1932, Plowden studied under Minor White and Nathan Lyons after graduating from Yale, and assisted O. Winston Link and George Meluso before embarking on his own distinguished career. A Guggenheim Fellow and author of more than twenty books, he has taught at institutions including the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Iowa. His photographs are held in major collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress.
