Second Powerpoint

This is the second powerpoint that I showed to my group about Francesca Woodman. Click images to see them bigger.

Francesca Woodman

The time of the works production was in the 1970s, up until this point women were seen as objects. This was a time when women were beginning to express their own ideas and freedoms. Her images display her moving from adolescent to women-hood. 

The camera she used while producing her work was a Yashica twin lens reflex camera. Francesca Woodman played complex games of hide and seek with her camera. In some of her images she shows herself fading into the background, merging with the wall under wallpaper, dissolving into the floor or flattening herself behind glass.

All her images are about women with the images being in a basic setting. Nearly all of her images are pictures with just her in them.

In her images there is very few where you see her as a whole person. Nearly always something is either covering her or she is blurred. 

Art critic Arther Danto said of Woodman's photographs, "It is impossible to view her work without being drawn into the vast questions it raises about life, art and the meaning and embodiment of sex..."

This presentation explains more about her images and what people think the meaning is behind them.