Francesca Woodman, from Polka Dot Series, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 |
Precocious and tragic, Woodman made her first photographic self-portrait aged 13 but died aged just 22 in 1981. In her brief career she made some 800 photographs of great subtlety and originality. She appears in her self-portraits as an unsettling presence - sometimes vulnerable, sometimes naked and sometimes like a ghost in abandoned rooms.
Read an article by Rachel Cooke.
(NB the images here are my selection from her oeuvre and not necessarily included in the Victoria Miro show.)
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 |
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Rome, 1977-8 |
Francesca Woodman, Space2, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-8 |
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1980 |
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 |
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 |
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1980 |
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