Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman ( born April 3, 1958 in Denver, Colorado; † January 19, 1981 in New York City ) was an American photo artist.

Life

Woodman grew up in a family of artists. Initial work emerged at the age of thirteen. Between 1975 and 1979 she attended the Rhode Iceland School of Design ( RISD ) from 1977 to 1978, she lived with a RISD scholarship in Rome. At RISD she also made ​​several videos.

In January 1981, she published the picture book Some Disordered Interior Geometries. In the same month Francesca Woodman ended her life at the age of 22 years by jumping from a building in New York.

Work and reception

In her photographs she deals mostly with themselves and their bodies. She brings in relation to the surrounding space. Often they used long exposures or double exposures to implement their topic. Woodman used mostly black and white photography. Only parts are released from her estate. Her work is interpreted differently. The Spanish art historian Isabel Tejeda wrote:

In 2012, an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City dealt with the work Woodmans. In addition to more than a hundred of her photographs, the museum also showed six of their short films. 2014 shows the Sammlung Verbund in Vienna 80 photographs of the artist. At the same time appear with Francesca Woodman. Composite works in the collection, the first German -language monograph on Francesca Woodman.

Publications

• Some Disordered Interior Geometries. Synapse Press, Philadelphia, Penn. In 1981.