An Art that Nature Makes

摘要

Rosamond Wolff Purcell is a US photographer who uncovers deeper levels of meaning and power in her portrayals of natural and manufactured objects. Her sources range from a Maine junkyard to the collections of natural history museums, and her collaborators on her many books include paleontologist and science historian Stephen Jay Gould, magician Ricky Jay, and Shakespeare scholar Michael Witmore. She explores the fascinating and porous boundary between art and science and the universal human desire to collect and classify, which is expressed in a wide variety of intellectual fields.