Sunday 27 July 2014

Wk 1: Artist Study // Francesca Woodman (Scanning Exercise)

Scanning Study // Francesca Woodman

I choose Francesca Woodman because this isn't a style of photography I would normally gravitate towards. At first glance the images are seemingly pointless and depressive but the more you look the more you see. The emotion inside her images captivated through movement and decay give a sense of the uneasy. However the sense of play makes them enticing and light. They certainly are beautifully haunting. I love the use of repeated texture. But I also find it confusing that her images seem to come from a time long before she took them. They feel like the 30s and yet they are taken in the 70s only adding to their mystery. 



From Angel Series, 139 X 139 mm, Roma, September 1977 
Taken from Francesca Woodman, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain 

































Untitled, 139 X 139 mm, New York, 1979 - 1980
Taken from Francesca Woodman, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain 





























Untitled, 139 X 139 mm, New York, 1979
Taken from Francesca Woodman, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain 

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