Creator Record

Metadata

Name

Buswell, Richard

Dates & places of birth and death

b. 1945

Nationality

American

Notes

Richard Buswell (American, 1945-)
Buswell has photographed settlement sites, ghost towns, and frontier homesteads in the West for over forty-one years. Rather than strictly working as a documentary photographer. Buswell closes in on his chosen subject matter of corroded artifacts and decayed bones to capture fleeting instances, or as he states, "the inspired moment," that may vanish soon after the shutter clicks.
Buswell is a fourth-generation Montanan. Trained as a medical doctor, Buswell is also an accomplished photographer with three books published by The University of Montana Press, including Echoes: A Visual Reflection; Silent Frontier: Icons of Montana's Settlement; and Traces: Montana's Frontier Re-visited. A fourth book, Close to Home, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2012.

Buswell's work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Corcoran Gallery of Art; the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Library of Congress; Yale University Art Gallery; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Seattle Art Museum. BR