Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Rosamond Purcell
Rosamond Purcell is one of my favorite photographers. She does much of her work in museums, including the Mutter Museum and the Kunstkammer and has collaborated on books with F. Gonzalez-Crussi and Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002). She is drawn to desiccated objects, as she explains in an interview on NPR, and her studio is her own cabinet of curiosities.
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