Abandoned Car Barn, Punxsutawney, PA, 2004
I recall seeing some of Plowden's photographs at the Chicago Cultural Center years ago...the Small Towns series, perhaps. The stark yet carefully composed black and white shots of rural America capture a way of life that's not yet ready to be superseded by something else. These latest photos in the Dust series, though, point towards an abandonment of those places for the cities and suburbs, places that have supplanted the rural as the most feasible place to live. It's a sad state that Plowden captures remarkably well, somewhere between a nostalgic and a reporter's eye.
Wellman, IA, 2004
Perhaps these places lay in wait for its occupants to return. Or maybe for nature to reclaim the sites as her own.
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