Rosamond Purcell

Biography

Rosamond Purcell is a photographer known for her work in natural-history collections and for her re-creation of the seventeenth-century Danish museum of Ole Worm. Her books include Egg & Nest (Harvard, 2008), Owls Head: On the Nature of Lost Things (Quantuck Lane, 2007), Bookworm (Quantuck Lane, 2006), and Dice: Deception, Fate and Rotten Luck (Quantuck Lane, 2002).

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Summer 2015

Dislocation on Pacific Coast Highway

Photography by Dennis Purcell, Rosamond Purcell

We had been going much too fast to make a perfect scan, yet the camera, in attempting to stitch together the vertical slices, had made a very interestingly distorted hash of the scene, one which somehow captured the architecture, the street...
PROFILES / Spring 2008

The Stories of Strangers: Mexican Ex-Voto Paintings

By Rosamond Purcell

While visiting a church in Guadalupe in 1917, David Alfaro Siquieros, the great muralist painter of the Mexican Revolution, found, “along with broken candelabras and other typical church adornments,” a “true mountain” of small paintings...