Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman has become one of the most talked about, studied and influential of late twentieth-century photographers. She started taking photographs when she was barely thirteen, and in less than a decade created a body of work that has now secured her reputation as one of the most original American artists of the 1970’s. Woodman brough an understanding of Baroque painting, modernist art and contemporary post-Minimalist practice to her haunting, sensual images. Both in her work with models and in her sometimes disturbing self-portraits, she made a throroughgoing challenge to the certainties of photography.