Francesca Woodman

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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 in Boulder, Colorado . Her parents were Betty Woodman , of Jewish descent, and George Woodman . She had an older brother named Charlie. The first photographic work was created at the age of thirteen. Between 1975 and 1979 she attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), from 1977 to 1978 she lived in Rome on a RISD scholarship . She also shot several videos at RISD. In 1980 the family moved to New York because their father in particular hoped for a better connection to the city's art business. Here, Francesca felt drawn to the fashion industry. Since, according to fellow students, her photos were extremely ahead of their time in every respect, her work was not properly perceived by the art scene.

In January 1981 she published the illustrated book Some Disordered Interior Geometries . That same month, on January 19, 1981, Woodman committed suicide . She jumped out the window of a loft apartment on the East Side (Manhattan) of New York.

Work and reception

In her photographs she mostly deals with herself and her body. It relates itself to the space around it. She often used long exposures or double exposures to implement her subject. Woodman used mostly black and white photography. Only parts of her estate have been published. Your work is interpreted differently. The Spanish art historian Isabel Tejeda wrote:

“Lots of opinion texts , for and against the feminist reading, Lacan 's interpretations, the label ' American Gothic ' for the moods created by Woodman, as well as the temptation to read her work as autobiographical, her relationship to surrealism . Woodman as a narcissist or the opposite of it, or that she questions the view that the photographic image offers security. "

In 2012, an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City looked at Woodman's work. In addition to the more than one hundred photographs, the museum also showed six of her short films. In 2014 the Verbund Collection in Vienna showed 80 photographs by the artist. Simultaneously appeared with Francesca Woodman. Works of the Verbund Collection the first German-language monograph on Francesca Woodman. In 2020 the C / O Berlin will show a cross-section through Woodman's work.

Publications

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

literature

  • Alexis Schwarzenbach (Ed.): Francesca Woodman . Scalo Publishers, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-931141-96-9 .
  • Chris Townsend: Francesca Woodman. Scattered in space and time . Phaidon Press, London 2006, ISBN 0-7148-4430-6 .
  • Marco Pierini (Ed.): Francesca Woodman . Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2009, ISBN 978-88-366-1490-5 (with exhibition directory and bibliography).
  • Gabriele Schor, Elisabeth Bronfen (Ed.): Francesca Woodman. Works from the Verbund collection. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86335-352-0 .
  • Isabella Pedicini: Francesca Woodman - The Roman years: between flesh and film . contrasto srl. Rome 2012. ISBN 978-88-6965-330-8 .
  • Francesca Woodman's Notebook . Afterword by George Woodman. Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2011.
  • Anna Tellgren (Ed.): Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel . König, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86335-750-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Isabella Pedicini: "Francesca Woodman - The Roman years: between flesh and film". contrasto srl. Rome 2012, p. 23.
  2. ↑ The Woodmans by C. Scott Willis, DVD-Video BYFJD Lorber Films 2011
  3. ↑ Anna Kohn: My body, my work of art , Spiegel online from March 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Written opinions abound, both for and against the feminist reading, the Lacanian interpretations, the categorization of the atmospheres created by Woodman with the, American Gothic 'label, the temptation to read her work as autobiographical, her relationship with Surrealism, Woodman as a narcissist, or as the opposite of narcissism, or her challenging the idea of ​​the photographic image as a certainty. " Isabel Tejeda: Portrait of the artist as an adolescent. Francesca Woodman, Strategies of the Imperceptible. In: Francesca Woodman. Milan 2009, p. 81, with references
  5. ↑ Francesca Woodman, March 16 - June 13, 2012, guggenheim.org , accessed March 16, 2012.
  6. ↑ Francesca Woodman. Works from the VERBUND SAMMLUNG. , accessed February 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ Francesca Woodman. February 3, 2020, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  8. ^ "Simply the Other Side". In: dash of thought. June 20, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 (American English).

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personal data
SURNAME Woodman, Francesca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1981
Place of death New York City