Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman was born on Denver, Colorado, April 3rd in 1958. She is an American Photographer, best known for taking black and white film nude pictures of herself portrait and friends which studied and influential of late 20th Century photographers. Who suicide in New York, 19 January on her’s 22 years old.

Woodman started taking pictures when she was barely thirteen and in less than a decade created a body of work that has now secured her reputation as one of the most original American Artists of 1970s. Spent the most of her childhood in Italy in the Florentine countryside, where she lived in an old farm with her parents who were also artists and her older brother as well later became an associate professor of electronic art.

She created a number or of artis’ books, such as ‘Portrait of a Reputation’, ‘Quaderno dei Dettati e dei Temi’, ‘Angels’ Calendar Notebook and ‘Some Disordered Interior Geometries’, however the only book that was published during her life time was ‘Some Disordered Interior Geometries’ released in January 1981 shortly before she committed her own death, the book contains 24 pages in length and is based upon selected pages from an Italian geometry exercise book were had attached 16 photographs with handwriting and white correction fluid on the pages. Woodman used of a black and white 21’4 inch square format, were she produced blurred images by camera movement and long exposure times, merging with their surroundings.

Francesca Woodman was very passionate for her work, creative, imaginative also very ambitious. She influenced me with the beauty and intelligence clearly visible in her photographs, the female body as a central theme which is a landscape for her reflections on materiality and presence.

REFERENCE:

• Book: Francesca Woodman