Details
Published by Editions Xavier Barral. Paris, France 2016.
By
Francesca Woodman
Price
USD 85
Description
This intimate work offers an immersion into the work of Francesca Woodman, whose photographs, visual, poetic and strange enigmas, continue to inspire contemporary creation.
A young photography prodigy, she left behind an incredibly mature body of work, produced in a few years before her premature death at the age of 22. In a perpetual exploration of the self and the medium, the photographer almost exclusively used her body in her images, so I am always within reach , she explains, when the urgency of representation arises.
Writing and drawing allow him to prefigure his productions embodied in wasteland places that seem abandoned.
Several essays shed light on the multiple facets of this work: the point of view of the historian of photography on her entire body of work (Anna Tellgren), that of the novelist through the prism of the female body (Anna-Karin Palm) and that of the artist, the photographer’s father, George Woodman.
About
Born in 1958 in Denver, Francesca Woodman grew up in an artistic family in Colorado and began photography at 13. Frequent family trips to Italy, where her parents bought a house near Florence, deeply influenced her work. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), learning under Aaron Siskind, and later moved to New York, briefly exploring color photography and fashion aesthetics before her death in 1981.
Her first U.S. traveling exhibition was in 1986, with major European exhibitions following in the 1990s. Her work is in collections like Tate Modern and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery.
