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| Edition Language: | English |
Corey Keller
Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 4.45 | 343 Users | 17 Reviews
Present Appertaining To Books Francesca Woodman
| Title | : | Francesca Woodman |
| Author | : | Corey Keller |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First 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 Containing many previously unpublished photographs, it is the definitive Francesca Woodman monograph.Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was born in Denver, Colorado, to the well-known artists George and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 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books Francesca Woodman
Meh.Woodman's work features a combination of the physical form with contrasting environments like dilapidated buildings or personal living spaces. They're dark and segmented and her composition is great. This book features her photographs and series divided into four different locations: Rhode Island (75-78), Italy (77-78), New Hampshire (80), and New York (80-81). Since this book was published in conjunction with a newly curated show in SF MOMA, there is a feature in the back of all of the pieces
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
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
Patron saint of sad white girls everywhere. A lot of her work is remarkable though... incredibly arresting.
A catalogue of an exhibition at SFMOMA, with three medium-length essays on the artist's work. I was introduced to Francesca Woodman through the highly-recommended documentary The Woodmans. As others have pointed out,while a few of Francesca's photographs are arguably masterpieces, most have a very experimental, work-in-progress feel to them. What is interesting about her is not her existing body of work, but the promise left unfulfilled by her tragic death, the hothouse environment in which she
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