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| Edition Language: | English |
Corey Keller
Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 4.45 | 343 Users | 17 Reviews
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| Title | : | Francesca Woodman |
| Author | : | Corey Keller |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 2011 by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (first published October 31st 2011) |
| Categories | : | Art. Photography. Nonfiction. Art and Photography |
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Artists who arrive fully formed at a young age always dazzle, and Francesca Woodman was one of the most gifted and dazzling artist prodigies in recent history. In 1972, the 13-year-old Woodman made a black-and-white photograph of herself sitting at the far end of a sofa in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her face is obscured by her hair, light radiates from an unseen source behind her out at the viewer through her right hand. This photograph typifies much of what would characterize Woodman's work to come: a semi-obscured female form merging with or flailing against a somewhat bare and often dilapidated interior. In an oeuvre of around 800 photographs made in just nine years, Woodman performed her own body against the textures of wallpaper, door frame, baths and couches, radically extending the Surrealist photography of Man Ray, Hans Bellmer and Claude Cahun and creating a mood and language all her own. In the 30 years since her untimely death, Woodman has gained a following among successive generations of artists and photographers, a testament to her work's undeniable immediacy and enduring appeal Amid a renewed intensification of interest in Francesca Woodman, this volume is published for a major touring exhibition of her photographs and films at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim. Containing many previously unpublished photographs, it is the definitive Francesca Woodman monograph.Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was born in Denver, Colorado, to the well-known artists George and Betty Woodman. In 1975 she attended the Rhode Island School of Design, and in 1979 she moved to New York, to attempt to build a career in photography. In 1981, at the age of 22, she committed suicide.
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Ratings: 4.45 From 343 Users | 17 ReviewsCritique Based On Books Francesca Woodman
A greatly under appreciated artist, who created the body of her work while young, and died by her own hand at the age of twenty two. Haunting.This is the catalog that accompanies the Francesca Woodman exhibition at SF MOMA, which we saw earlier this month. She was a remarkable, mysterious, and prolific talent. The show and this catalog include a number of her images I hadn't seen before.
I am not a fan of Francescas work but I am captivated, shocked, and moved by it. Beautiful and alarming. It is a real shame she left us too soon. A real d*mn shame to us all. This is a startling and striking collection all artists and art fans should check out.
I'll admit I was a bit under-whelmed by this, my first serious exposure to Woodman's work. I suppose her obsessive, and dramatic, self-depictions were probably influential to the likes of Cindy Sherman, who I greatly admire, and who has herself gone on to influence myriad, particularly female, photographers. But I don't mind saying that I find Sherman's work significantly more discursively dynamic than what I saw of Woodman's- which is gothically alluring, but, I found, repetitive and
Deeply disturbing. Incredibly talented young artist, tormented by her demons, as shown in her photographs, and in her death at her own hand.
I always get emotional looking at a body of work from an artist who not only died young, but by their own hand. You can see limitless potential. It's a sad realization that they could not see that in their own life. That being said, Francesca Woodman is a master at showing brazen, haunting depictions of woman in their truest forms in bleak settings. The intimate photographs are captivating and eerie, some showing raw power and emotion, other shots feel like the subject is trapped in an invisible
770.74794 W892 2011
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