More than forty years ago, Richard S. Buswell chose the relics of Montana s past as his raw material. Over time, in five books, he has sharpened his focus, moving from panoramic vistas of abandoned buildings to meticulously composed, tightly framed depictions of natural and man-made objects against stark black backgrounds. He has shifted the viewer s attention from his subjects to the form and structure of his pictures. Although rooted in Buswell s experience as a lifelong Montanan, the photographs in this book are no more (or less) about Montana than James Joyce s Dubliners,...