Francesca Woodman: Photographic Work is an exhibition catalog published for a show that started at Hunter College and ran February 13 through March 14, 1986 and then traveled to Wellesley where it ran April 6 through June 8, 1986. The book features a preface by Ann Gabhart and text by Abigail Solomon-Godeau and Rosalind Krauss. Includes 45, often haunting, black and white images from Woodman.
Photographer Francesca Woodman committed suicide in 1981 at the age of only 22. Yet, in her brief career she produced a substantial and powerful body of work which has since been widely shown and celebrated. Known for her use of self portraiture, Woodman’s psychological explorations of the body, gender, and the gaze are brooding and multi-layered.