The Blue Room, Eugene Richards's first book in color, is a study of abandoned and forgotten houses in rural America. They stand mute and solitary in out-of-the-way places wherever, it's been said, things haven't worked out for people. To those quickly passing by, the timeworn structures are seen as places to avoid. To Eugene Richards, they are heirlooms, vestiges of past lives, evidence of the transitory nature of things.
