Published on the occasion of her retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2011-200, this monograph documents nearly 800 black-and-white photographs created over nine years by American photographer Francesca Woodman. A photographer from the age of 13, Woodman’s surrealist images explore the female body, often through a distinctive form of self-portraiture. Her figures appear semi-obscured, sometimes nude, sometimes clothed, creating playful yet intimate scenes drawing inspiration from artists such as Man Ray and Claude Cahun, while circumventing traditional portrait photography. Woodman’s untimely death at the.....
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