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Pride of place. Baltimore locals guide us through the gritty neighborhoods of HBO’s “The Wire.” NBC’s “The Office” brings street cred to Scranton, Pennsylvania. In the high plains of Argentina, a town’s identity is forever linked to the 1962 Hollywood epic “Taras Bulba.” And location is everything for the photographer David Plowden; he looks back on a career shooting rural landscapes, small towns, and ferocious locomotives.