Francesca woodman photos

October 10, October 10, s , female , photography , portraits , work of art , WTF. Francesca Woodman April 3, — January 19, is best known for photographing herself.

A curated sample of photographs by Francesca Woodman ordered by date.

But her pictures are not self-portraits in the traditional sense. She is often nude or semi-nude and usually seen half hidden or obscured — sometimes by furniture, sometimes by slow exposures that blur her figure into a ghostly presence. These beautiful and yet unsettling images seem fleeting but also suggest a sense of timelessness. Woodman took her first self-portrait at age thirteen and continued photographing herself until she died.

She attended public school in Boulder, Colorado, between and , except for second grade, which she attended in Italy, where the family spent many summers between school years. She began high school in at Abbot Academy, a private Massachusetts boarding school. There, she began to develop her photographic skills and became interested in the art form.

Through , she spent summers with her family in Italy in the Florentine countryside, where the family lived on an old farm, and many of her photographs were taken there. European culture and art had a significant impact on her artistic development. The influence of surrealist art, particularly the photographs of Man Ray and Claude Cahun can be seen in the themes and style of her work.

She developed her ideas and skills as a student at Rhode Island School of Design. Woodman created at least 10, negatives, which her parents now keep.

Francesca Woodman was an American photographer known for her black-and-white self-portraits.

Woodman continuously explored and tested what she could do with photography. She challenged the idea that the camera fixes time and space — something that had always been seen as one of the fundamentals of photography. She playfully manipulated light, movement and photographic effects, and used carefully selected props, vintage clothing and decaying interiors to add a mysterious gothic atmosphere to the work.