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Plowden is an apt disciple of Minor White, O.Winston Link. While this might seem, as it is, an essential addition to any railroad photo collection, we recommend it to every serious general photography library. He is a master of the truly artistic mode--black and white. B&W is especially suited to steam locomotives: massive dark machines topped by huge white clouds of exhaust. Plowden worships those engines but gives suitable homage as well to the men that operated and maintained them. For a more thorough (and enthusiastic) appeciation of this splendid work see Trains magazine online [November 2010]. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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