With much regret we had been compelled to turn aside from our journey, and spend the winter among the Mormons, Jotham Goodell recalled in 1852. His intended destination was Oregon's Willamette Valley. Having been compelled to this decision, I resolved to pass the winter as quietly as possible. But his winter with the Mormons was anything but peaceful. He found the Latter-day Saints to be militant in word and deed, especially vis-a-vis the United States, from which they had just escaped. Although he stayed only six months, he was in Salt Lake City in 1849, soon after the pioneers.
With much regret we had been compelled to turn aside from our journey, and spend the winter among the Mormons, Jotham Goodell recalled in 1852. His in...
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...
For over four decades, Richard Buswell has trained his camera on the landscape of Montana, with its abandoned and overgrown homesteads and majestic...
