Photographer Rosamond Purcell specializes in beautiful, yet unsettling images of natural and man-made objects. Her work has garnered international acclaim and she has released numerous books, including “Book Nest,” “A Glorious Enterprise: The Museum of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,” and “Owls Head: On the Nature of Lost Things,” which covers Purcell’s 20-year photographic “excavation” of a Maine junk yard. She has also collaborated with historian Stephen Jay Gould, magician Ricky Jay, and Shakespeare scholar Michael Witmore.
Read More: ‘An Art That Nature Makes’ Exclusive Trailer: New Doc Examines Rosamond Purcell’s Essential Work
Now, director Molly Bernstein (“Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay”) has directed a new film entitled “An Art That Nature Makes,” that details the photographer’s oeuvre of work and how she has found unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed, straddling the line between the breathtaking and the disturbed. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
Read More: ‘An Art That Nature Makes’ Exclusive Trailer: New Doc Examines Rosamond Purcell’s Essential Work
Now, director Molly Bernstein (“Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay”) has directed a new film entitled “An Art That Nature Makes,” that details the photographer’s oeuvre of work and how she has found unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed, straddling the line between the breathtaking and the disturbed. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
- 8/9/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Molly Bernstein’s “An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell” examines the life and career of photographer Rosamond Purcell, bringing light to a major presence long unrecognized by the art world. A collector of objects that’s curious about human beings’ obsessive need to collect, Purcell is not an easily classifiable artist, but she’s someone who uses material objects as a medium to understand the collective human psyche. The daughter of an eminent Harvard University historian, she grew up in an academic environment where the written word was sacred, but eventually gravitated towards images both emotionally and intellectually challenging. Some of the images in her work include an old, discarded book transformed by the steady work of hungry termites, and a meticulously arranged box of human molars collected by Peter the Great. The documentary features interviews with not only Purcell, but admirers such as author Jonathan Safran Foer,...
- 7/21/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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