UPDATE WARDY FORTY: Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park
	My book on Woody Gurhrie's life at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital will be published in late 2007 by the University of Illinois Press. Photographs of the abandoned buildings at Greystone are juxtaposed with interviews with people like Arlo Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, never-before-published family photographs as well as Guthrie's letters and medical records from Greystone.
If you'd like to be notified when the book is available or to get a signed copy, please let me know at pwbuehler@aol.com. The never-aired episode about Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park from the History Channel series "Weird U.S." is now up on YouTube.

I photograph modern ruins because I find it disturbing to find familiar objects and technology to be abandoned. I'm reminded that nothing is permanent, that everything is always in a state of transition. And we see ourselves in our own transitions, sometimes too focused on where we're going to notice and appreciate where we are.

I created this homepage so I could gather people's stories and recollections about these modern ruins when they were alive as well as to help me better understand why people are fascinated them. I've included them throughout the site. If after visiting you have something to say, please send me e-mail or sign my guestbook.

Phil Buehler