Film: "An Art That Nature Makes"
A haunting and beautiful portrait of acclaimed photographer Rosamond Purcell, who finds breathtaking beauty in the discarded and decayed. Discussion follows with Rosamond Purcell
Discussion follows with Rosamond Purcell
Artist Rosamond Purcell creates collages of natural objects (bones, feathers, leaves, fossils) and found objects (distressed books, industrial scrap, cast-off objects of all stripes) and imbues them with life through her photography. Her work has garnered international acclaim, graced the pages of National Geographic and over 20 published books, and enlisted admirers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen Jay Gould and filmmaker Errol Morris. The latter extolls her ability to reveal “the hidden history of the world” and to “find art in really strange places.” Molly Bernstein’s haunting and beautiful portrait reveals an artist whose work defies our basest materialist impulses and celebrates the beauty of decay, the poetry of destruction and the ineffable effects of time—on everything. D: Molly Bernstein, US, 2016, 1h 15m
An exhibition of Rosamond Purcell’s photographs is currently at Big Town Gallery in Rochester, VT, through July 23.
