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Never-before-published work by an iconic woman artist from the very start of her career.
Background information
"US-American artist Francesca WOODMAN took her first photograph at the age of the thirteen. From the time she was a teenager until her death at twenty-two, she produced a fascinating body of work exploring gender, representation, and sexuality by photographing her own body and those of her friends.
This out-of-print photographic volume 'Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation' considers how the artist came into her creative voice and her singular approach to photography at a notably young age. Ranging from portraits in her studio/apartment in college to self-portraits in the bucolic Colorado landscape in which she was raised, these works capture her hallmark approach to art making: enigmatic, rigorous, and poignant.
Content
Featuring approximately forty unique vintage prints, as well as notes, letters, postcards, and other ephemera related to the artist's burgeoning career, this out-of-print photographic volume, 'Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation', which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at MCA Denver, details both her creative and personal coming-of-age during the years 1975-1979.
The book also includes selected photographs of the young artist taken by friend and RISD classmate George Lange during this period. Taken together, they present a nuanced and in-depth study of this formative period in the development of this groundbreaking artist." (Rizzoli, 2019)