BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS
There are currently over 20 books with text and photographs exclusively by David Plowden and over 35 books to which David Plowden has contributed.
Photographs and text exclusively by David Plowden
Heartland: The Plains and The Prairie, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013
David Plowden’s Iowa, Humanities Iowa, 2012
Requiem for Steam: The Railroad Photographs of David Plowden, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
David Plowden: Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography, W. W. Norton & Company, 2007; Introduction by Steve Edwards
A Handful of Dust: Disappearing America, W. W. Norton & Company, 2006
David Plowden: The American Barn, W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Bridges: the Spans of North America, Revised Edition, W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
Imprints: A Retrospective, Bulfinch Press, 1997; Introduction by Alan Trachtenberg
Small Town America, Harry N. Abrams, 1994; Introduction by David G. McCullough
End of an Era: The Last of the Great Lakes Steamboats, W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
A Sense of Place, W. W. Norton & Company, 1988
A Time of Trains, W. W. Norton & Company, 1987
Industrial Landscape, W. W. Norton & Company, 1985
An American Chronology, Viking Press, 1982; Introduction by David G. McCullough
Steel, Viking Press, 1981
Tugboat, Macmillan, 1976 (Received the American Library Association Notable Children’s Books 1976)
Bridges: The Spans of North America, Viking Press, 1974; alternate selection, Macmillan Book Club, 1975; reprint editions: hardcover W. W. Norton & Company, 1984; paperback 1988
Commonplace, E. P. Dutton, 1974
Floor of the Sky: The Great Plains, Sierra Club, 1972
The Hand of Man on America, Smithsonian, 1971; paperback edition Chatham, 1973; 2nd printing 1974
Lincoln and His America, Viking Press, 1970; alternate selection, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1971, (Received the Benjamin Barondess Award, 1971)
Farewell to Steam, Stephen Greene Press, 1966; Bonanza Edition, 1968
Photographs exclusively by David Plowden, text co-authored by David Plowden
Steel: The Cycle of Industry, Photographs by David Plowden, Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee School of Engineering, 2017; Text with James R. Kieselburg
The Iron Road, Four Winds Press, 1978; Text with Richard Snow
Desert and Plain, the Mountains and the River, E.P. Dutton, 1975; Text with Berton Roueche
Cape May to Montauk, Viking Press, 1973; Text with Nelson P. Falorp
Nantucket, Viking Press, 1970; Text with Patricia Coffin
America the Vanishing, Stephen Greene Press, 1969
Gems, Viking Press, 1967
Photographs exclusively by David Plowden
A Place of Sense, University of Iowa, 1988
The States and the Nations, W. W. Norton & Company and the American Association for State and Local History, 1977–1981, (New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Vermont editions)
Wayne County: The Aesthetic Heritage of a Rural Area, Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, 1979 (Commissioned by New York State Council for the Arts))
The Freeway in the City, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968
David Plowden, Contributor
Classic Steam: Timeless Photographs of North American Steam Railroading, Fall River Press, Elephant Book Company Limited, 2009
Encyclopedia of Photography: Twentieth-Century Photography, (Volumne 3 O-Z), Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006
Professional Photography Photographing Building, RotoVision SA, 2001
Brooklyn, A State of Mind, Workman Publishing, 2001
Recovering the Prairie, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999
Predictions for the Next Millennium, Andrews McMeel, 1998
Photography’s Multiple Roles, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1998
Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, Smithsonian Press, 1996
Black and White Cats, Collins Publishers, 1992
The Changing Face of America, Prentice Hall, 1991
We Go There on the Train, The National Council on the Aging, 1989
Shaping Space, Kirkhauser, 1988
Landscape, Gallery of World Photography & Thames & Hudson, 1984
An Open Land: Photographs of the Middle West 1852-1982, Open Lands Institute, 1983,
Photography as Fine Art, E.P. Dutton, 1983
The Gallery of World Photography: The City, Shueish Publishing Company, 1983,
The Gallery of World Photography: The Country, Shueish Publishing Company, 1983,
The Photograph Collectors Guide, by Lee Witkein, The New York Graphics Society, 1979
Bruce Caton’s America, American Heritage, 1979
The Great West: Real Ideal, University of Colorado Press, 1977
Industrial Archaeology, Penguin Books, 1976
History Cast in Metal, The Cast Metal Institute, 1976
Railroads in America, American Heritage, 1975
Mr. Jefferson, Architect, Viking Press, 1973
The Americans, Viking Press, 1966
With Heritage So Rich, Random House, 1966