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Owls Head

by Rosamond Purcell

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ISBN13: 9780971454866
ISBN10: 0971454868
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
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A derelict antiques and scrap metal business in Owls Head, Maine, is the setting of this multilayered word-portrait of its owner, William Buckminster. His world is inspiration for Purcell's carefully crafted meditation on collecting and entropy, and the signals both send to those willing to pay attention.

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Part of the pleasure of [Purcell's] photographs is in recognizing how...material decay can quicken our awareness of the immaterial. (Agni 58, Sven Birkerts, 1 October 2003)

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Among connoisseurs of the timeworn, the unlovely, and the uncanny, of course, Purcell is a pioneer. (Boston Globe, Joshua Glenn, 5 October 2003)

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A brilliant and astonishing examination of the structure of loss. (Grace Dane Mazur, author of Silk and Trespass)

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The same extraordinary eye she exhibits in her beautiful, eerie photographic portraits of museum specimens. (Jennifer Ackerman, author of Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity)

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A veritable alchemist with both word and image...Purcell's text is sweet-natured and sly and funny and wistful. (Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders)
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ISBN:
9780971454866
Author:
Purcell, Rosamond
Publisher:
Quantuck Lane Press
Author:
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Individual Photographer
Subject:
Artists, Architects, Photographers
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Photographers
Subject:
Poor
Subject:
Portrait photography
Subject:
Women photographers
Subject:
Antique dealers
Subject:
Photographers -- United States.
Subject:
Women photographers -- United States.
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
32
Publication Date:
November 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
239
Dimensions:
800x500
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