First Powerpoint

On here i'm going to put what I included in my Powerpoint's which each week I showed to my group. Click images to see them bigger.

Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman was born in 1958 in Denver, Colorado. She lived and worked in New York up until her death in 1981. Since 1986, her work has been exhibited widely.

At the age of thirteen Francesca Woodman took her first self portrait using a Yashica twin lens reflex camera given to her by her father. From then, up until her untimely death in 1981 where she committed suicide by jumping off a building in lower Manhattan aged just 22. 

Self Portrait at thirteen, Boulder , Colorado, 1972-1975  

She produced an extraordinary body of work and left an archive of some 800 images, many of which still have not been seen.

She studied at Rhode Island School Of Design, from 1975-1979, receiving a grant to spend a year in Rome to continue her studies. 

Whilst there she had her first solo exhibition at a bookshop and gallery specialising in Surrealism and Futurism.

Woodman has had solo exhibitions shown all over the world from 1976-2009. She has also had shown a variety of group exhibitions from 1977-2008. 

Francesca Woodman has been called a Modernist, a Surrealist and even a Gothic artist. Her work shows all three of these traditions. As a young women she photographed herself obsessively but often in her pictures she appears as a bur of movement or a half hidden figure, someone constantly trying to escape or hide. 

The end result is not a self portrait but a series of stills from a performance in which she plays with the notion of the self, disguising, transforming and defacing her own body.

In her work people think that she might be playing with themes of identity and with photography, and in particular portrait photography, can play in constructing a fixed and therefore false identity. 

From Angel Series, Italy, Rome, 1977

From Angel Series, Italy, Rome, 1977-1978

Eel Series, Italy, Rome, May 1977- August 1978

House #3, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

Space2, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1978

Untitled, Boulder, Colorado, 1972-1975

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976

 Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1976

That was what my first presentation included that I showed on the first week. Within the presentation I included things about her incase my group had never heard of her before and what mine and other peoples views might be on her and her work and the meaning behind it. I also included a selection of different interesting images for people to see what her work was actually like.