On View
Not on viewObject number2005.19
Bedsprings
Artist
Richard S. Buswell
(American, 1945-)
Date1998
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 8 3/4 × 6 5/8 in. (22.2 × 16.8 cm)
sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Exhibition HistorySecond Sight/Insight II, KIA, Ethel Denton Groos Gallery, January 10, 2015 - May 10, 2015.
Round and Round, Ethel Denton Groos Gallery, November 4, 2017 - March 4, 2018Label TextThe American West recorded by Richard Buswell shows places humans invaded, abandoned, and are now being reclaimed by nature. He began visiting ghost towns and homesteads as a child, with his parents. Documenting the sites for almost 50 years, the self-taught photographer has observed their natural decay and destruction by collectors and vandals.
“Man is an intruder in these sites. I’m privileged to see them before nature reclaims them.” Buswell’s photographs deliver lessons of impermanence. What became of these people? How are we impacting the places we currently inhabit? How long will our contemporary marks on the land endure?
