Books – photographs and text by David Plowden

2010s

• Requiem for Steam: The railroad photographs by David Plowden, W.W. Norton, Fall 2010

2000s

• Bridges: the Spans of North America, Revised Edition W.W. Norton, 2002
• David Plowden: The American Barn, W.W. Norton, 2003
• A Handful of Dust: Disappearing America, W. W. Norton, March 2006
• David Plowden Vanishing Point 50 Years of Photography, W.W. Norton, October 2007; Introduction by Steve Edwards

1990s

• End of an Era: The Last of the Great Lakes Steamboats, W.W. Norton, 1992
• Small Town America, Harry N. Abrams, 1994; Introduction by David G. McCullough
• Imprints David Plowden A Retrospective, Bulfinch Press, 1997; Introduction by Alan Trachtenberg

1980s

• Steel, Viking, 1981
• An American Chronology, Viking, 1982; Introduction by David G. McCullough
• Industrial Landscape, W.W. Norton, 1985
• A Time of Trains, W.W. Norton, 1987
• A Sense of Place, W.W. Norton, 1988

1970s

• Lincoln and His America, Viking, 1970; alternate selection, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1971
• The Hand of Man on America, Smithsonian, 1971; paperback edition Chatham, 1973; 2nd printing 1974
• Floor of the Sky: the Great Plains, Sierra Club, 1972
• Bridges: the Spans of North America, Viking, 1974; alternate selection, Macmillan Book Club, 1975; reprint editions: hardcover W.W. Norton, 1984; paperback 1988
• Commonplace, E.P.Dutton, 1974
• Tugboat, Macmillan, 1976

1960s

• Farewell to Steam, Stephen Greene, 1966; Bonanza Edition, 1968

Books – co-authored and photographs by David Plowden

1970s

• Nantucket, Viking Press, 1970 with Patricia Coffin
• Cape May to Montauk, Viking Press, 1973 with Nelson P. Falorp
• Desert and Plain, the Mountains and the River, E.P. Dutton, 1975 with Berton Roueche
• The Iron Road, Four Winds Press, 1978 with Richard Snow

Books – multiple authors, photographs exclusively by David Plowden

1980s

• A Place of Sense, University of Iowa, 1988

1970s

• The States and the Nations:New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, and Vermont editions, W. W. Norton & Co. and the American Association for State and Local History, 1977–1981
• Wayne County: The Aesthetic Heritage of a Rural Area, Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, 1979

1960s

• Gems, Viking Press, 1967
• The Freeway in the City, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968
• America the Vanishing, Stephen Greene, 1969

Books – David Plowden as contributor

1990s–present

• The Changing Face of America, published by Prentice Hall, 1991, selected photographs
• Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, Smithsonian Press, 1996, selected photographs
• Photography’s Multiple Roles, published by the Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1998, selected photographs
• Predictions for the Next Millennium, published by Andrews McMeel, 1998, selected photographs
• Recovering the Prairie, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999, selected photographs
• Brooklyn, A State of Mind, Workman Publishing, 2001, selected photographs
• Professional Photography Photographing Building, published by RotoVision SA, 2001, selected photographs
• Black and White Cats, published by Collins Publishers, 1992, selected photographs
• Classic Steam: Timeless photographs of North American Steam Railroading, Fall River Press, Elephant Book Company Limited, 2009

1980s

• The Gallery of World Photography/the Country, Shueish Publishing Company, 1983, introduction and selected photographs
• The Gallery of World Photography/the City, Shueish Publishing Company, 1983, introduction and selected photographs
• Photography as Fine Art, E.P. Dutton, 1983, selected photographs
• An Open Land: Photographs of the Middle West 1852-1982, Open Lands Institute, 1983, selected photographs
• Landscape, Gallery of World Photography and Thames & Hudson, 1984, preface and selected photographs
• Shaping Space, Kirkhauser, 1988, selected photographs
• We Go There on the Train, published by the National Council on the Aging, 1989, selected photographs

1970s

• Mr. Jefferson, Architect, Viking Press, 1973, selected photographs
• Railroads in America, American Heritage, 1975, selected photographs
• History Cast in Metal, published by the Cast Metal Institute, 1976, selected photographs
• Industrial Archaeology, Penguin Books, 1976, selected photographs
• The Great West: Real Ideal, University of Colorado Press, 1977, selected photographs
• Bruce Caton’s America, American Heritage, 1979, selected photographs
• The Photograph Collectors Guide, published by the New York Graphics Society, 1979, selected photographs

1960s

• The Americans, Viking Press, 1966, selected photographs
• With Heritage So Rich, Random House, 1966, selected photographs

Feature Articles or Photographs Essays by David Plowden

• America West
• American Heritage
• American Land Forum
• Americana
• Architectural Forum
• Audubon
• Camera Arts
• Classic Trains
• Country Journal
• Fortune
• Historic Preservation
• Horizon
• Invention & Technology
• Life
• Newsweek
• The Railroad Magazine
• Smithsonian
• Timeline
• Traces
• Trains
• Varia
• Vermont Life

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