Francesca Woodman

The work of Francesca Woodman is illuminating, yet at the same time there is something inherently spectral  and obscure about her images. When you look at her photographs you feel as though someone is telling you a secret. They are letting you in on the depths of something, all the while flooding your view with light. Her surreal, fantastic photographs bring about discussion of psychoanalysis, self-image, and in many cases, female subjectivity  in their dreamlike representation. She is showing you a real rabbit hole to fall into.

Francesca Woodman attended the Rhode Island School of Design and produced the bulk of her images as a student. Many of her photographs are untitled, as this one is. The majority of them feature Woodman as the subject. Woodman’s body of work is spectacular for the time and age at which it was produced. She committed suicide in 1981, she was 22 years old.