DAVID PLOWDEN* (born 1932 in Boston) Georgia, Atlanta Interstate Highway construction, around 1960 gelatin silver print 20.3 x 25.2 cm verso photographer's stamp ESTIMATE € 200 - € 400 STARTING PRICE € 200 David Plowden is an American photographer who has made historical documentary photography of urban cities, steam trains, American farmlands, and small towns. He has produced 20 books and his work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Center for Creative Photography, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and Smithsonian Institution. Plowden was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. Plowden's photographs are characterised by their strong detail. In the steel mill photos, he attributed this to shots he would overexpose and under develop. On his subject matter - steam engines, small town Main Streets, steel mills - Plowden said: "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." (W. W. Norton/Chicago History Museum ed., David Plowden, Industrial Landscapes, Chicago 1985). Further artists and styles: Minor White, O. Winston Link, Nathan Lyons, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Richard Snow, documentary photography, landscape photography PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and, the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.