An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell plot
Finding unexpected beauty in what has become extinct and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed a body of work that has achieved international acclaim. She has graced the pages of National Geographic and more than 20 published books, and has enlisted the help of admirers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Errol Morris and Stephen Jay Gould. This documentary chronicles Purcell's fascination with the natural world - from a mastodon tooth to a hydrocephalus skull - and offers an insight into her unique way of placing both ordinary and strange objects in new context, in sometimes disturbing, but always breathtaking. images.