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    Close to Home: Photographs
    Close to Home: Photographs
    Close to Home: Photographs
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    Close to Home: Photographs

    By Richard S. Buswell, Julian Cox and George Miles

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    For over four decades, Richard Buswell has trained his camera on the landscape of Montana, with its abandoned and overgrown homesteads and majestic, never-ending skies. In the recent work assembled in this volume, Buswell’s fourth book, his subjects are much more than scattered remains. His black-and-white photographs frame cast-off, common things to reveal abstract patterns in the tradition of twentieth-century modernist photography. As Buswell puts it, his work is “more interpretive and abstract than it is documentary. The images explore the junction where decaying artifacts become visual echoes of the past.”

    To create a portfolio of images that make us look anew at the West requires a mix of courage and patience, of persistence and imagination. Richard Buswell has shown just these qualities as he has turned a youthful hobby into a powerful means for exploring the past and present of his Montana homeland.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2013
    ISBN9780826352897
    Close to Home: Photographs
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    Richard S. Buswell

    Richard Buswell’s photographs have been shown in 39 solo museum exhibitions and included in 230 museum group shows. His photographs are in the permanent collections of more than 200 art museums. Buswell lives in Helena, Montana.

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      Close to Home - Richard S. Buswell

      CLOSE TO HOME

      CLOSE TO HOME

      PHOTOGRAPHS

      RICHARD S. BUSWELL

      FOREWORD by George Miles

      INTRODUCTION by Julian Cox

      © 2013 by the University of New Mexico Press

      Photographs © 2006–2010 by Richard S. Buswell

      All rights reserved. Published 2013

      Printed in China

      18 17 16 15 14 13  1 2 3 4 5 6

      The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

      Buswell, Richard S., 1945–

      Close to home : Photographs / Richard S. Buswell ; foreword by George Miles ; introduction by Julian Cox.

           p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-0-8263-5287-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8263-5289-7 (electronic)

      1. Montana—Pictorial works. 2. Frontier and pioneer life—Montana—Pictorial works. 3. Landscapes—Montana—Pictorial works. I. Title.

      F732.B85 2013

      978.6—dc23

      2012031667

      Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Plate Section

      Vita

      FOREWORD

      The Anxiety of Influence weighs heavily upon contemporary photographers of the American West. All artists, literary or visual, confront the challenge of finding original insight or expression amid the work of their predecessors. Western photographers must navigate between the master-works of pioneer photographers like Carleton E. Watkins and Timothy H. O’Sullivan and their mid-twentieth-century successors, such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, on the one hand, and the popular, if often inaccurate, iconography of the western landscape created by Hollywood, television, and the advertising industry. They face the challenge of creating distinctive work for an audience saturated with images of the West, past and present. They grapple with popular nostalgia for an imagined past and the extraordinary corpus of outstanding work compiled by those who came before them. To create a portfolio of images that make us look anew at the West requires a mix of courage and patience, persistence and imagination.

      For over four decades, Richard Buswell has shown just these qualities as he has turned a youthful hobby into a powerful means for exploring the past and present of his Montana homeland. Schooled by his father’s fascination with the remnants of Montana’s pioneer days, Buswell has explored not the theme-park environments of famous ghost towns but the quiet, sober reality of truly abandoned mills, mines, ranches, and homes, places that were probably no more than marginally successful in their heyday and that today are isolated from the currents of everyday life. The places that Buswell visits often exhibit an understated natural beauty, but they are not scenes of majestic grandeur from places like the Yellowstone Valley, whose image was burned into the American consciousness

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