Owls Head
Author | : Rosamond Purcell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-10-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 1593720335 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781593720339 |
Rating | : 4/5 (339 Downloads) |
Download or read book Owls Head written by Rosamond Purcell and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Rosamond Purcell\'s new book, Owls Head, is abouther 20-year friendship with William Buckminster, an eccentriccollector whose dilapidated antiques shop and 11-acre junkyard inMaine became something of a tourist attraction. Buckminster soldmany of his items to Purcell, who took them home and photographedthem in large-format Polaroid\'s. Purcell, who\'s been called the"doyenne of decay," has also collaborated three times on books withthe late paleontologist and science historian Stephen JayGould.