December 1, 2010
6:00 p.m. Discussion and presentation
7:00 p.m. Book signing

David Plowden’s photographs will be shown at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the exhibition Chicago Cabinet: Views from the Street from October 16 until January 16, 2011.

This show will include works by Walker Evans, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Ray Metzker and others.

Tuesday, October 12
Interview on Iowa Public Radio at 12:00 PM
Book signing at Prairie Light Books at 6:00 PM

Wednesday, October 13
Council Bluffs Public Library for a presentation, slide show, and book signing at 6:00 PM
Council Bluffs Public Library
400 Willow Ave
Council Bluffs, IA 51503

Thursday, October 14
Western Iowa Tech Community College for a presentation, slide show, and book signing at 6:00 PM
Western Iowa Tech Community College
4647 Stone Ave
Sioux City, IA 51106

In conjunction with the release of photographer David Plowden’s newest book, Requiem for Steam (a tribute to the age of the steam locomotive), the Center for Railroad Photography and Art will circulate a traveling exhibition of the same name featuring thirty of the book’s black-and-white inkjet prints.

The exhibition will open at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento in October. David Plowden will present a lecture there about his railroad photography and sign books on Saturday, November 6.

The Center will host a reception at CSRM on Thursday evening, November 4

The Book Stall at Chestnut Court and David Plowden will be hosting a book signing for my new book Requiem for Steam on October 9, 2010 4:30. Please join us.

Book Stall at Chestnut Court
811 Elm Street
Winnetka, Il 60093
847-446-8880

California State Railroad Museum is presenting a selection of my railroad photos available from October 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010.

David Plowden will be hosting two talks and slideshows on November 4 and November 6, 2010.  We will also have a book signing on November 6 — all at the museum.

Visit the California State Railroad Museum
125 “I” Street
Sacramento, Ca 95814

For more information contact: Scott Lothes at the museum office, lothes@gmail.com

David Plowden’s photographs and text appear in an article published by Classic Trains Magazine, spring 2010 issue, titled Last Day of Steam on a CPR mixed.

David Plowden’s photographs and text appear in an article published by Timeline Magazine: A publication of the Ohio historical society, July – September 2010 issue, titled Through the Veiwfinder: Discovering Ohio’s Unexpected Riches.

Will be published by W.W. Norton October 9, 2010.

The Book Stall at Chestnut Court and I will be hosting a book signing on October 9, 2010 4:30.
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FROM THE JACKET: As a child, David Plowden was given an inexpensive box camera and before long he began to photograph railroad trains. As he matured and started on what would become a lifetime in photography, trains — specifically steam locomotives — continued to be one of his passions. But by the beginning of the 1960s they were eclipsed by diesel engines; the steam era had ended.

It is our good fortune that Plowden was passionate about trains. For years he photographed not only the locomotives but all facets of the railroad world, from long steam-powered freight trains crisscrossing middle America to the yards, small stations, and industrial settings that are synonymous with trains. While his photographic love affair with America, and in particular the mid-West where he lives, resulted in many books and exhibitions of his beautiful docu- mentary photographs, he never lost sight of the railroads, where his work would result in the images presented in this book, a reverent tribute and requiem for the era of steam.

David Plowden is the author of more than twenty photography books, including Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography, published by Norton. As a young man out of college he worked on the Great Northern Railroad in Minnesota, and when the opportunity presented itself, he photographed trains. Later, as he became increasingly well known in the world of photography, he continued to document the railroad world but it was not the same. The exhilaration of a steam locomotive thundering down the track was gone. It lives on in this book.

Trip through Kansas to photograph for my new book to be published by W.W. Norton in 2012

Completed work on Requiem for Steam and sent the completed work to publisher.

From July through the end of November I have been editing, scanning, and writing text for the new book Requiem for Steam, which is scheduled to bepublish in 2010

My photographs will be shown in the Trout Gallery at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, as part of the exhibition by the George Eastman House Collection “Tracks” from the street from June 26 until August 22, 2009.

Saulk County, more work  for the new book to be published by W.W. Norton in 2012

Jefferson County Iowa, photographed interiors for a new book to be published by W.W. Norton in 2011.

David Plowden: Vanishing Point – Fifty Years of Photography
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton (October, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0393062546
ISBN-13: 978-0393062540

A Handful of Dust: Photographs of Disappearing America
Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton (May, 2006)
ISBN: 0393060330

Bridges: The Spans of North America
Hardcover: 328 pages
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company;
Revised edition (November, 2001)
ISBN: 0393050564
Product Dimensions: 12.0 x 10.5 x 1.5 inches

The American Barn
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company;
1st edition (November, 2003)
ISBN: 0393025578
Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 11.8 x 0.8 inches

Imprints: David Plowden : A Retrospective
Hardcover: 203 pages
Publisher: Little Brown and Company (September 1, 1997)
ISBN: 0821223232
Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 10.2 x 11.5 inches