Francesca Woodman
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Francesca Stern Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer best known for her black and white photographs of herself or female models. Many of her photographs depict women, naked or clothed, blurred (due to photography and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. Years after she died by suicide at the age of 22, in 1981, her work is getting a lot of positive critical attention.
Life
Woodman was born in Denver, Colorado, to artists George Woodman and Betty Woodman (née Abrahams). Her mother was Jewish and her father was from a Protestant family. Charles, her older brother, later became an associate professor of electronics art.
Woodman shot her first self-portrait at age 13 and kept photographing herself until she died. She attended public school in Boulder, Colorado, from 1963 to 1971, except for the second grade, where she spent many summers in Italy. She began high school at Abbot Academy, a private Massachusetts boarding school. She began to develop her photography skills and became involved in the art form. In 1973, Abbot Academy joined Phillips Academy; Woodman graduated from the public Boulder High School in 1975. She spent summers with her family in Italy, where the family lived on an old farm in 1975.
Woodman attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island, beginning in 1975. She attended RISD honors in Rome from 1977 to 1978. Because she spoke fluent Italian, she was able to connect with Italian intellectuals and artists. She returned to Rhode Island in late 1978 to graduate from RISD.
In 1979, Woodman moved to New York City. She returned to New York "to pursue a career in photography" after spending the summer of 1979 in Stanwood, Washington, visiting her boyfriend at Pilchuck Glass School. She sent portfolios of her work to fashion photographers, but "her inquiries did not result in anything." She was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1980.
Woodman became depressed in late 1980 due to her work's inability to attract attention and a broken marriage. She survived a suicide attempt in 1980, after which she lived in Manhattan with her parents.