Plowden, David. The Hand of Man on America by David Plowden. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Laser Art & Optical Transforms

Laser Art & Optical Transforms (published in 1979 by Optosonic Press) is a unique 170-page volume written and compiled by Thomas Kallard (with an introduction by Rosemary Jackson

capturing a period of radical experimentation where photography became a central tool for socio-political and artistic revolution

which the Gernsheims had famously rediscovered

and experimental fine-art photography

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Plowden, David. The Hand of Man on America by David Plowden. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Laser Art & Optical TransformsSmithsonian Institution Press, 1971. Cloth, oblong hardcover with protected dust jacket. Black and white photographs and text by David Plowden. These photographs were made over ten years of travel and were exhibited at the Smithsonian and subsequently through the Smithsonian's Traveling Exhibition Service. Chapters: Space; The Land Possessed; Habitat; A Rage Upon the Land; and Neglect and Solitude. Ex library with usual markings, otherwise VG+ with