New Photography Exhibit Now Open at Academy of Natural Sciences
Normally, the gaping skulls, jarred rats, flightless birds and delicate insects repose in climate-controlled cabinets high above Logan Square where they are available to researchers and protected from the damaging effects of sunlight. Rosamond Purcell had other ideas.
The Boston photographer envisioned the world-renowned research specimens at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University bathed in natural light, their oddities, beauty and secrets revealed—literally warts and all. An exhibit of Purcell’s stunning color photographs called Everything Under the Sun: New Photographs of Academy Specimens opens Saturday, March 3, in the Academy’s Art of Science Gallery.
Normally, the gaping skulls, jarred rats, flightless birds and delicate insects repose in climate-controlled cabinets high above Logan Square where they are available to researchers and protected from the damaging effects of sunlight. Rosamond Purcell had other ideas.
The Boston photographer envisioned the world-renowned research specimens at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University bathed in natural light, their oddities, beauty and secrets revealed—literally warts and all. An exhibit of Purcell’s stunning color photographs called Everything Under the Sun: New Photographs of Academy Specimens opens Saturday, March 3, in the Academy’s Art of Science Gallery.
--Carolyn Belardo, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
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