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Photographs of Montana Frontier by Richard Buswell At the Housatonic Museum of Art
Bridgeport, CT: Richard Buswell’s photographs of Montana’s
abandoned, overgrown homesteads and artifacts of the Montana frontier
will be on exhibit at the Burt Chernow Galleries, Housatonic Museum
of Art. Traces/Montana’s Frontier Re-Visited will be
on view from Nov. 4, 2011 until Dec. 18, 2011.
Buswell’s photos are precisely realized individual works, intended
to be studied and savored one at a time. For more than thirty
five years, Buswell has used the camera to explore the visually profound
and unique historical complexion of his native state.
Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art says, “Beaten
and weathered facades become as a sublime as the cloud dappled, never
ending Montana sky. In the world as seen through Buswell’s eyes,
history and archaeology are inextricably meshed. History provides the
link between then and now, and archaeology the means to understand
and reconstruct the passage of time.”
Buswell’s photography represents thousands of hours and miles
spent crossing and re-crossing the state of Montana – a land
mass as large as the British Isles, but populated by less than a million
people. His photographic studies are intimate, miniature landscapes,
organized with the same rigor and described with the same sensitivity
to light and space as he accords the grand vista.
Cox continues, “Richard Buswell’s work occupies a special
place - and provides a lasting reminder that the most unique forms
of beauty and invention can often be found close to home.”
Buswell’s
work is in the permanent collections of 191 Museums both in this country and
in Europe. In 2007 the Montana Museum of Art and Culture exhibited Traces/Montana’s
Frontier Re-visited the exhibit now on view at the Housatonic Museum of
Art and a book with the same title has been published.
The Housatonic
Museum is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thursday
evenings until 7 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday from noon
to 4 p.m. The Museum is closed when the college is closed. For further information
contact 203-332-5052 or visit www.housatonicmuseum.org.
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than 150 yards off I-95 (Exit 27) and Rte. 8 (Exit 1), a block from
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Housatonic Community College
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Bridgeport, CT 06604
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