Artworks by Francesca Woodman at Richard Saltoun Gallery on artnet

Francesca Woodman

(American, 1958–1981)

Francesca Woodman

Untitled (from Swan Song Series), Providence, Rhode Island, 1978

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Francesca Woodman

Early 1972 - 1975, E03, 1972

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Biography

Timeline

1958: Born in Denver, CO
1975 - 1979: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1981: Died in East Village, NY

Exhibitions

2012: Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2011: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women, Cheim and Read, New York
: Camouflage, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (exhibition catalog)
: Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England (exhibition catalog)
: This is Not a Fashion Photograph, International Center of Photography, New York
: Artist Rooms: Francesca Woodman, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, (solo)
: Francesca Woodman, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
2009: Francesca Woodman, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Francesca Woodman, Espacio A.V., Murcia, Spain; SMS Contemporanea, Siena, Italy (exhibition catalog) (solo)
2008: Diana and Actaion—The Forbidden Sight of Nudity, Düsseldorf Kunst Palast Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany (exhibition catalog)
: Conversations, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
: Darkside—Part One: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterhur, Winterhur, Switzerland (exhibition catalog)
: Implant, Horticultural Society of New York, UBS Art Gallery, New York
: Female Trouble, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich´(exhibition catalog)
: Freeeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Bertlin (exhibition catalog)
: Ellipsis: Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie, Francesca Woodman, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, 4 October – 6 January 2008; Lund Kontshall, Lund, Sweden, 9 February – 13 April 2008; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK, 23 April – 22 June 2008 (exhibition catalog)
: Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 25 February – July
: Held together with Water: Art from the Sammlung Verbund, MAK, Vienna, 5 May – 16 September ; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, 10 September 2008-11 January 2009 (exhibition catalog)
: Francesca Woodman & Richard Serra, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 25 August – 6 September
: 30/40, A Selection: Forty Artists from Thirty Years of Exhibitions at Marian Goodman Gallery (Part II), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (exhibition catalog)
: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, 4 March – 16 July; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 21 September – 16 December; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, 17 February – 12 May 2008, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 4 October 2008 – 18 January 2009 (exhibition catalog)
: Autoritratto/Autobiografia, Museo Handrik C. Andersen, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (exhibition catalog)
: Poetry and Dream Collection Display: Francesca Woodman, Tate Modern, London (solo)
: Francesca Woodman, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
2007: Francesca Woodman, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (solo)
: The Woodman Family, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy (catalog)
: Screened and Selected: Recent Photography, Film, and Video Acquisitions, 1999-2000, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, 19 January – 4 June (exhibition catalog.)
: Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 23 March – 21 May (exhibition catalog)
: 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, 25 March – 28 May. (exhibition catalog)
: Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia and Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy, 7 June – 14 September
: GORGE(l), Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, 6 October – 7 January, 2007 (exhibition catalog)
: Domir, rêver…et autres nuits, capxMusée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 3 February – 21 May (exhibition catalog)
: Francesca Woodman, George Woodman, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, 25 February – 20 April (solo)
: Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, 24 June – 24 July (solo)
: D’Ombra, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy, 14 October – 7 January 2007 (exhibition catalog)
2006: Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 20 December – 11 March, 2007
: American Academy in Rome, Rome, 7 February – 17 March (solo)
: Fashion and Photography, Megaron, Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece, 17 March – May (exhibition catalog)
: Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2 June – 5 September (exhibition catalog)
: Shirley/Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH, 6 May – 18 June
: Galleria Davide Di Maggio, Berlin, 19 March – 10 May (solo)
2005: Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 29 October – 3 December (solo)
: Indeterminate States: Video in the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, CIFO, Miami, FL, 30 November – 3 February 2006 (exhibition catalog)
2004: How do we want to be governed?, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida, 29 November, 2004 – 30 January, 2005 (exhibition catalog); The Secession, Vienna, 24 February – 24 April 2005; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 28 April – 19 June 2005
: Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 14 June – 27 August
: That bodies speak has been known for a long time, Generali Foundation, Vienna, 22 January – 25 April (exhibition catalog)
: Ideal and Reality: A History of the Nude, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, 20 January – 9 May
: Francesca Woodman: Photographs 1975-1980. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 13 October – 13 November (exhibition catalog) (solo)
: After Image, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2 August – 2 September; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, 24 February – 23 May, 2004; Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 22 June – August 2004
: Claude Cahun, Francesca Woodman, and Justine Kurland, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, 11 July – 13 September
: Incommunicado, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England, 30 September – 14 December; City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 20 March – 9 May, 2004; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, 22 May – 11 July (exhibition catalog)
: The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, Maine, 25 September-7 December; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 5 March-23 May, 2004, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 11 September-28 November, 2004 (exhibition catalog)
: Galerie Clara Marie Sels, Düsseldorf, 21 February - 30 April (solo)
: Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, 23 May - 12 July (solo)
2003: Francesca Woodman: Photographs. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 12 July – 26 October (exhibition catalog) (solo)
: Kamel Mennour, Paris, 1-23 February (solo)
2002: Hexenwahn, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2 May - 6 August
2001: Camera Women, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 6 October - 6 January 2002; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 25 January - 6 March 2002, (exhibition catalog)
: Relative Positions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 19 October- 9 December (exhibition catalog)
: The Big Id, James Cohan Gallery, New York, 21 February-24 March
: Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, 17 March-19 May (solo)
: Victoria Miro Gallery, London, May-June
2000: Francesca Woodman: Providence, Roma, New York. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2 February-27 March (exhibition catalog) (solo)
: Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 28 June-28 July (solo)
: The Wounded Diva: Hysteria, Body, Technology in 20th Century Art, Galerie im Taxispalais, Insbruck, 3 March-7May; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden, Baden, 25 June-27 August (exhibition catalog)
: Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, 2 February-10 March (solo)
: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 28 May-August 31 (solo)
: Galerie Lelong, New York, 20 January-20 February
1999: The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 23 September 1999-27 February 2000 (exhibition catalog)
: From the Heart: The Power of Photography--A Collector's Choice, The Sondra Gilman Collection, South Texas Institute of the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX, March (exhibition catalog)
1998: Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, 5 February-14 March (solo)
: Galleria Dryphoto, Prato, Italy, 4 April-16 May (solo)
: Francesca Woodman, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France, 11 April-31 May; exhibition tour: Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 12 September-15 November; Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 22 January 1999-15 April 1999; The Photographers' Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 6 August-18 September, 1999; Centro Cultural TeclaSala, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain, 11 November-30 March 2000; Carla Sozzani Gallery, Milan, Italy, 10 January-25 February 2001; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 18 May-21 July 2001; PhotoEspana, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain, 12 June - 14 July, 2002 (exhibition catalog) (solo)
: Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France, 6 July-16 August (exhibition catalog) (solo)
: Space/Sight/Self, The University of Chicago David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, 19 November-10 January 1999 (exhibition catalog)
: F-Comme Photographie, Fri-Art Centre D'art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland, 1 November-20 December
: The Skopelos Center, Skopelos, Greece. 4 July-August
: Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representations, exhibition tour USA: MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. 10 April-28 June 1998; Miami Art Museum, Miami, September-December 1998; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. February-March 1999 (exhibition catalog)
: Objectif corps, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada. 6 March-1 June
: Engel, Engel, Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, Austria, 11 June-7 September (exhibition catalog)
: Im Reich der Phantome, Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg Monchengladbach, 12 October 1997-4 January 1998; Kunsthalle Krems, 21 February-1 June 1998; Fotomuseum Winterthur, 13 June-16 August 1998 (exhibition catalog)
1997: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20 February-15 April
: Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France. 3 June-2 November (exhibition catalog)
1996: Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy, 24 November 1996 - 9 February 1997 (exhibition catalog) (solo)
: Inside the Visible, exhibition tour: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 31 January- 12 May; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, June-September; Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom, October-December (exhibition catalog)
1995: Casetti Galleria Libreria, Rome, Italy, 6 December 1995-30 June 1996 (solo)
1994: PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, 2 December 1994-13 January 1995 (solo)
1992: Francesca Woodman, Photographic Arbeiten, exhibition tour: Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland, 31 May-26 July; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, 18 September-25 October; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 4 December 1992-7 February 1993; Suomen Valokuvataiteen Museo SÄÄTIÖ, Helsinki, Finland, 26 March-28 April 1993; DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 8 May-13 June 1993; Galleri F15 Alby, Moss, Norway, 7 August-3 October 1993 (exhibition catalog) (solo)
: Current 92: The Absent Body, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 22 January-22 March
: Sprung in die Zeit, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany, 20 November 1992-17 January 1993 (exhibition catalog)
1989: Vanishing Presence, exhibition tour: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 29 January-16 April 1989; The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, 9 May-2 July 1989; Winnipeg Art Center, Winnipeg, Canada, 27 August-22 October 1989; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 14 November 1989-7 January 1990; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, 30 January-27 March 1990; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 22 April-17 June 1990 (exhibition catalog)
: Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 14 December 1989-28 January 1990 (solo)
: Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 29 March-7 May
1988: Identity: Representation of the Self, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, 14 December 1988-10 February 1989
1986: Memento Mori, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, November 1986-January 1987
: Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work, exhibition tour: Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, 13 February-14 March; Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA, 9 April-8 June; University of Colorado Fine Arts Gallery, Boulder, CO, 2 February-15 March 1987; UCI Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, 2 April-2 May 1987; Krannet Art Museum, Champaign, IL, 25 January-6 March 1988 (exhibition catalog) (solo)
1980: Pictorialism, Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, April
: Beyond Photography 80, The Alternative Museum, New York, 19 April-17 May (exhibition catalog)
: Friends of the Gallery, Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, 15 July-15 August
1978: Swan Song, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 16-22 November (solo)
: Libreria Maldoror, Rome, Italy, 20-30 March (solo)
: Group Show, Rhode Island School of Design Gallery in Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy, May
: Cinque Giovani Artisti, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy. 14 June-31 July
1977: Juried Competition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, March
: Photographs and Portraiture, Womanspace, Boulder, CO, April
1976: Juried Competition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, March
: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, March (solo)

Public Collections

: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
: Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
: RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
: The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
: Kunsthalle Bibliothek, Berlin, Germany
: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
: The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
: Musee de Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
: Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France
: The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
: The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Literature

2008: Brigitte Henninges, “Female Trouble in Munchen” Photopresse (14 August 2008)
: Melanie Kunze, “Unruhestif Terinnen,” Elle, no 138 ( 11 August 2008)
: Mirko Weber, “Abseits der Amme: Frauen Fotografieren Frauen,” Die Rheinpfalz (22 August 2008)
: Erica Cooke, “Francesca Woodman,” Dossier (Issue 2, 2008)
: Simone Förster, “Francesca Woodman: Zwischen Spiegeln und Zeiten,” Female Trouble: Die Kamera als Spiegel und Bühne weiblicher Inszenierungen. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008)
2007: Lori Fredrickson, “Book Review: Francesca Woodman,” Popular Photography and Imaging (January 2007)
: Marvin Good, “A Room of One’s One Imagining,” American Photo (January/February 2007)
: Claire Holland, “Spectral Sketches of a Fragile Life,” The Financial Times (10 July 2007)
: Elizabeth Janus, Francesca Woodman: Disordinate Geometrie Interiori,” FlashArt, vol. XL, no. 262 (February-March 2007)
: Drusilla Beyfus, “Surreal Spirit,” Telegraph Magazine (4 November 2006)
: Carol Armstrong, “Francesca Woodman: A Ghost in the House of the ‘Woman Artist,” Women Artists at the Millenium, Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher, ed. (Cambridge: October Books and MIT Press, 2006)
: Vince Aletti, “Reappearing Act,” Art and Auction (October 2006)
: “Her Own Best Model,” Photo District News (August 2006)
: Leslie Camhi, “Picture This,” The Village Voice, (6-12 December 2006)
: Philp Gefter, “Holiday Books: Photography,” The New York Times (3 December 2006)
2006: Kyle MacMillan, “Haunting Vision,” The Denver Post, pp 3F, 9F (17 December 2006)
: Townsend, Chris, with essays by George Woodman and Betsy Berne. Francesca Woodman (London: Phaidon Press, 2006)
2004: Buchloh, Benjamin H.D, and Betsy Berne. Francesca Woodman: Photographs 1975-1980. (New York: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2004)
: Arthur Danto, “Darkness Visible: Francesca Woodman,” The Nation (15, November 2004)
2003: “Francesca Woodman Reconsidered: A Conversation with George Baker, Ann Daly, Nancy Davenport, Laura Larson, and Margaret Sundell,” Art Journal, vol. 62, no. 2 (Summer 2003)
: Rankin, Sloan. Francesca Woodman: Photographs. (Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2003)
: David Levi Strauss, “After You, Dearest Photography: Reflections on the Work of Francesca Woodman,” Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics (New York: Aperture Foundation,2003)
: Marie Darrieussecq, “L’infini silence de la lumiere,” Pour Voir (July/August 2000)
: Pierfrancesco Frillici, “Il ritorno di un mito: le foto di Francesca Woodman,” Arteletta (May 2000)
: Cecilia Casorati, “Francesca Woodman e La Fotografia Dell’immaginario,” [Crudelia?] (April 2000)
: Peter Davison, “Girl, Seeming to Disappear,” The Atlantic Monthly (May 2000)
: Caruso, Rossella, Giuseppe Casetti, Cecilia Casorati, Achille Bonito Oliva. Francesca Woodman: Providence, Roma, New York. (Rome: Castelvecchi Arte, 2000)
: Rossella Caruso, “Saint Paul, Francesca Woodman, the Time of Now” in Conversione di Saulo (Rome: Arte Nova, 2000)
: Angelica Jacob, “Torture,” Frieze (January-February 2000)
: Rocco Moliterni, “Woodman: Fotografie di un angelo caduto,” La Stampa (5 February 2000)
: Edith Shloss, “The Fierce Poetry of Francesca Woodman,” Italy, Italy, (Year XVIII-No. 1-2000)
2000: Maria Rosa Sossai, “Francesca Woodman,” Flash Art (April/May 2000)
: Simon Grant, “Dreamer on the sexual edge,” Evening Standard (5 July 2000)
: Gaby Wood, “The lady vanishes,” The Observer Magazine (25 July 1999)
: John Tozer, “Standing in for herself,” Creative Camera (August/September 1999)
: Chris Townsend, “Disappearing Act,” Hotshoe International (July/August 1999)
: Olga Spiegel, “Tecla Sala presenta la primera retrospectiva de la fotografa Francesca Woodman,” La Vanguardia (30 November 1999)
: Claudia Silva Santos, “Artes novas no CCB,” Espectaculo (22 January 1999)
: Jose Luis Porfirio, "Depois de...?" Exposicoes (30 January 1999)
: Francine Koslow Miller, "Francesca Woodman," Artforum (May 1999)
: Joshua Meyer, "A photographer's troubled vision," South End News (4 March 1999)
: Alice Roberts, “Building on Sand,” Make, London (June-August 1999)
: Cate McQuaid, "Woodman explored the nature of want," The Boston Globe (25 February 1999)
: Carol Mavor, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999)
: Cristina Margato, "Um corpo por breves instantes," DNA (Spring 1999)
: Sarah Kent, “I’ll be your mirror,” Time Out Magazine (4-11 August 1999)
: John Henshall, “Fatal Attraction,” New Statesman (23 August 1999)
: Luisa Soares de Oliveira, "Francesca Woodman," Exposicoes (5 March 1999)
1999: Andrew Clements, “Melancholy reality,” The Guardian (21 August 1999)
: Margarida Medeiros, “Este é o Meu Corpo?” Público (22 January 1999)
: Jos Dekker, "Een exercitie in Wegcijferen," Man (October 1998)
: Maartje Den Breejen, "Woodmans verlangen naar de dood," Het Parool (6 October 1998)
: Collective authors, "Gibt es die Fotografie des Unsichtbaren?" Weinlander Zeitung (16 June 1998)
: Annick Colonna-Césari, “Francesca au corps à corps,” L’Express (23 April 1998)
: Door Joep Eijkens, "Leven en dood van een engel," Eindhovens Dagblad (23 September 1998)
: Michel Frizot, "Les fantômes se réveillent," Le Journal Des Arts (8 July 1998)
: Iris Dik, "Foto's Van Francesca Woodman: De schaduw van een zelfgekozen dood," VRIJ Nederland (12 September 1998)
: Ludmilla Etter, "Doppelbelichtung und Ubersinnlichkeit" Der Landbote (8 July 1998)
: Arno Haijtema, "Vliegend in kamers, wandelend door muren," de Volkskrant (26 September 1998)
: Harry Bellet, “Francesca Woodman, photographe fulgurante de l’abandon ae de la cruauté,” Le Monde (12 May 1998)
: Garrett Holg, "Exhibit gives many views of inner self," The Chicago Sun-Times (6 December 1998)
: Janus, Elizabeth, Sloan Rankin, Philippe Solliers and David Levi Strauss. Francesca Woodman (Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain; Zurich: Scalo, 1998)
: Ida Jager, "Francesca Woodman en het efemere leven," HN Magazine (24 October 1998)
1998: Marieke Van Gessel, "Als Alice in Wonderland," Residence (September 1998)
: Marianne Vermeijden, "Wij helpen haar een beetje onsterfelijk te worden," NRC Handelsblad (15 September 1998)
: Isabell Teuwsen, "aus einer anderen Welt," Sonntags-Blick (21 June 1998)
: Beppe Sebaste, "Come diventare fantasmi con i volti e i corpi di Francesca," diario della settimana (20-26 May 1998)
: Philip Jodidio, “Francesca et les anges,” Connaissance des Arts (April 1998)
: Susan Rubin Suleiman, “Dialogue and Double Allegiance: Some Contemporary Women Artists and the Historical Avant-Garde” Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation, ed. Whitney Chadwick (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998)
: James Roberts, Frieze (May 1998)
: Helaine Posner, “The Self and the World: Negotiating Boundaries in the Art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman” in Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation, ed. Whitney Chadwick (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998)
: Alan Riding, “Pictures, Perhaps, of Her Despair,” The New York Times (1998)
: Pieter Kottman, "Onbekende Hongaarse genieën," NRC Handelsblad (22 July 1998)
: Von Martin Schaub, "Phantome, Kunstler, Scharlatane," Tages-Anzeiger (15 June 1998)
1997: Anne Bertrand, "Comète," LimeLight, special number (June 1997)
: Richard Sennet, “The Social Body,” Transition: An International Review, Issue 71 (Fall 1996)
1996: Budney, Jen. Francesca Woodman (Modena: Galleria Civica, 1996)
: Gianni Romano, “Francesca Woodman,” ZOOM (Jannuary/February 1996)
: Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, "Francesca Woodman," Vis à vis, no. 13 (Spring 1994)
1994: Faye Hirsch, "Old Geometry: The Photographs of Francesca Woodman," The Print Collector's Newsletter, vol. XXV, no. 2 (May-June 1994)
1993: Charles Hagen, "Francesca Woodman," The New York Times (10 December 1993)
: Betsy Berne, "Francesca Woodman Remembered," Open City, no. 3 (1993)
1992: Hixson, Kathrin and Harm Lux. Francesca Woodman, Photographische Arbeiten/Photographic Works (Zurich: Shedhalle; Munster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1992)
: Ursual Eggenberger, “Francesca Woodman: Venus in Gefahr,” Zurichesee-Zeitung (4 June 1992)
: Von Simon Maurer, “Experimente mit den Tod,” Tages-Anzeiger (3 June 1992)
1991: Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “Just Like a Woman,” Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions and Practices (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1991)
1989: Margaret Sundell, "Vanishing Point: The Photography of Francesca Woodman," Inside the Visible (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989)
: Rosalind Krauss, “Problem Sets,” in Bachelors (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989)
: Stephen Perloff, "Four Snapshots," The Photo Review, vol. 12, no. 4, (Fall 1989)
1988: Brunella Antomarini, "Francesca Woodman," Parkett, no. 13 (January 1988)
: Collective authors, "Photographs by Francesca Woodman," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. X, no. 1 (1988)
1987: Reed Glenn, "The Flowering of Francesca Woodman: A Young Photographer's Tragic Life Blooms Again in her Heart," Sunday Camera (13 February 1987)
: Sylvia Wolf, "A Promise Cut Short," Art Week, vol. 18, no. 16 (25 April 1987)
: Gabhart, Ann, Rosalind Krauss, Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Francesca Woodman, Photographic Work (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Museum; New York: Hunter College Art Gallery, 1986)
: Abigail Solomon-Godeau, "Our Bodies, our Icons," Vogue (February 1986)
: Mary Ellen Haus, "Francesca Woodman," ARTnews, no. 1 (April 1986)
: Michael Brenson, "Francesca Woodman: Photographic Work," The New York Times (7 March 1986)
: Robert C. Morgan, "Francesca Woodman: Photographic Work," C.E.P.A. Quarterly, vol. 2 no. 1 (Fall 1986)
: Elizabeth Wehner, “Photographs explore female images” The Wellesley News (11 April 1986)
1986: Elizabeth Wehner, “Francesca Woodman: A portrait of the artist,” The Wellesley News (11 April 1986)
: Lorraine Kenny, "Problem Sets: The Canonization of Francesca Woodman," Afterimage, no. 4 (November 1986)
1981: Some Disordered Interior Geometries, ed. Daniel Tucker (Philadelphia: Synapse Press, 1981)
1980: Andy Grundberg, "Going Soft," SoHo News, no. 31 (30 April-6 May 1980)
1976: Roberta Valorta, "Francesca Woodman," Progresso Fotografico, no. 10 (October 1976)
: 1999 Harper’s Magazine, vol. 298, no. 1785, February 1999
: 1999 Janic Kulyk Keefer, Die Grune Bibliotek. (Munich: Piper Verlag GmbH, 1999). (cover)
: 1999 Lisa Lubasch, How Many More of Them Are You? (Penngrove: Avec Books, 1999). (cover)
: 1999 Lisa Phillips, The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and W.W. Norton & Co., 1999)
: 1999 Lisa Sewell, The Way Out. (Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 1999). (cover)
: 1999 Anita Shreve, Olympia. (Munich: Piper, 1999). (cover)
: 1998 Karen Finley, Dario Fo, Francine Prose, Charles Simic, Master Breasts: Objectified, aestheticized, fantasized, eroticized, feminized, by photography's most titillating masters. (New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc., 1998)
: 1999 Mona Thomas, On irait. (Paris: Gallimard Jeunesse, 1999). (cover)
: 1999 Marie Darrieussecq, Naissance des fantomes. (Paris: Gallimard, 1999). (cover)
: 1998 Pearl Abraham, Afstand van Amerika. (Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff bv, 1998). (cover)
: 1996 Jorgen Gassilewski, Rekviem. (Sweden: Saltning Bonners Fotosatteri, 1996). (cover)
: 1995 Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection. (Kansas City: Hallmark Cards in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1995)
: 1994 William A. Ewing, The Body: Photographs of the Human Form. (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1994)
: 1999 Tom Sleigh, The Dreamhouse. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999). (cover)
: 1999 Melitta Bregnik, Figuren. (Munich: Luchterhand Literaturrerlag, 1999)
: 2000 Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000). (cover)
: 2000 Victoria Lancelotta, Here in the world. (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000). (cover)
: 1991 Anita Phillips, The Virtues, the Vices and All the Passions. (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991). (cover)
: Selected Published Images
: 2008 “Francesca Woodman,” C International Photo Magazine, Number 6 (London: Ivory Press, 2008)
: 2008 Blondez, Philippe, ed., Bil Bok International, (April 2008, issue 28)
: 2008 Michel Onfray, Le Souci des Plaisirs: Constructions d’Une Érotique Solitare. (Paris: Flammarion, 2008)
: 2006 Neil Leach, “Camouflage,” Lotus International, no. 126, 2006
: 2000 Tracey Warr, The Artist’s Body (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000)
: 2006 Neil Leach, Camouflage, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006)
: 2003 David Campany, Art and Photography. (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003)
: 2003 Orvell, Miles, American Photography. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
: 2002 Stigter, Bianca, Goud uit stro: Het meselijk lichaam als avontuur. (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 2002). (cover)
: 2001 Schirmer, Lothar, ed., Frauen Sehen Frauen. (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2001)
: 2001 Madeline H. Caviness, Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
: 2000 Richard Hughes, The Fox in the Attic. (New York: New York Review of Books, 2000). (cover)
: 2006 Catherine Conybeare, The Irrational Augustine. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
: 1986 Jack Matthews, Ghostly Populations. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986). (cover)

Francesca Woodman

(American, 1958–1981)

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