Description: What is a monster? Is it a thing with a hairy face, extra eyes, and missing limbs? Or is it simply anything we don't understand? Photographer and author Rosamond Purcell explores the territory of the Other in this study of monstrosity, showing us the relationship between the mythical monster and its real counterpart. Using historical images, specimens from medical museums, and her own exquisite photographs, which eerily display the remains of monsters, both possible and impossible, Purcell shows us that too tall, too short, too many, not enough, and in the wrong place are concepts that have more to do with our own fears than with reality.

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