David Plowden "The American Barn"

[wlewisiii]

This is the good stuff.

I just picked this up today. It's another one of his amazing collections, this time of barns and related farm scenes from predominatly the upper-midwestern US. There is no real theme other than a sort of "zen of barns" but the shots are utterly glorious.

He shoots Hassy and uses the square format exceedinly well. I forget, using my Kievs, just how much I enjoy the way things get framed in a square. His main lens for the book was a Zeiss 50mm (!) though some were done with 100mm, 150mm and 250mm as well.

I also have his book "End of an Era" about the last few steamers working the great lakes.

He has a website at http://www.davidplowden.com and I recommend it as well.

 

[Kin Lau]

Very neat, thanks for posting the link. Gives me some good ideas to try with barns and bridges.

 

[matu]

William, great link, this Photographer is indeed very classic, with his sober square format, spartan and humble tones, he isn't "in betweens" he goes forward a sharp perpective or frontal planes, really does it well shooting scapes and buildings, it's hard to photograph things and transmiting a human message.
I'm glad you shared this with us.

Pablo