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This Catalogue produced in conjunction with the exhibition 'Francesca Woodman', presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011-2012) and the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012)Critic
"In an exceptionally informative catalog essay for the present exhibition, the art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson surveys the critical and art historical literature that has proliferated around the oeuvre by American photographer Francesca WOODMAN. The photographer who took her own life at 22 in 1981, is as close to a true saint as the putatively secular world of contemporary art can claim. The dreamy, formally playful and disarmingly erotic pictures Francesca WOODMAN made - mostly of herself partly unclothed or naked - project a self surrendering unreservedly to the spirit of art...it remains a poignant record of adolescent joy, fear, ambition and angst. It was not only her body that she exposed - she bared her soul too, and that is a rare and beautiful thing." (© Ken Johnson, in: The New York Times)"Even though they are quite small, about 5 by 5 inches, haunting photographs by Francesca WOODMAN have drawn admirers for decades." (© Ted Loos, in: The New York Times)
"These black and white portraits by Franesca WOODMAN have a way of getting under your skin." (© Hilarie M Sheets, in: W Magazine)
"This is a comprehensive monograph of the photographic oeuvre by Franesca WOODMAN, which as achieved cult status is the 30 years since the artist's brief yet prolific career ended when she took her life at age 22." (© Jack Crager, in: American Photo)
About the American photographer, Francesca WOODMAN (1958-1981)
Photo books by and about the work of Francesca WOODMAN
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Hasse Persson, Urs Stahel
- Format
- HC, 9 x 13 in., 384 pp., 264 b/w ills., text language: English