Description
Francesca Woodman took her first photograph at the age of the thirteen. From the time she was a teenager until her death at twenty-two, she produced a fascinating body of work exploring gender, representation, and sexuality by photographing her own body and those of her friends. Featuring approximately forty unique vintage prints, as well as notes, letters, postcards, and other ephemera related to the artist s burgeoning career, the volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at MCA Denver, details both Woodman s creative and personal coming-of-age during the years 1975-1979. Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation considers how the artist came into her creative voice and her singular approach to photography at a notably young age. Ranging from portraits in her studio/apartment in college to self-portraits in the bucolic Colorado landscape in which she was raised, these works capture Woodman s hallmark approach to art making: enigmatic, rigorous, and poignant. The volume also includes select photographs of Woodman taken by friend and RISD classmate George Lange during this period. Taken together, they present a nuanced and in-depth study of this formative period in the development of this groundbreaking artist.
About the Author
Nora Burnett Abrams is the Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning at MCA Denver. Since arriving in Denver in 2010, she has organized over thirty exhibitions and authored or contributed to nearly a dozen accompanying publications. Recent projects have highlighted unusual or unknown episodes in artists careers, such as Basquiat Before Basquiat (2017), as well as the first survey of Senga Nendudi s R.S.V.P. sculptures (2014). She has taught art history at New York University and lectured throughout the country on modern and contemporary art. She holds art history degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Drew Sawyer is the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum. Previously, he was Head of Exhibitions and the William J. and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. His most recent exhibition, Family Pictures, explored the legacy of Roy DeCarava s 1955 book The Sweet Flypaper of Life, and included works by John Edmonds, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Lorraine O Grady, Gordon Parks, Sondra Perry, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems.
Book Information
ISBN 9780847864911
Author Nora Burnett Abrams
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Mondadori Electa
Publisher Mondadori Electa
About the Author
Nora Burnett Abrams is the Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning at MCA Denver. Since arriving in Denver in 2010, she has organized over thirty exhibitions and authored or contributed to nearly a dozen accompanying publications. Recent projects have highlighted unusual or unknown episodes in artists careers, such as Basquiat Before Basquiat (2017), as well as the first survey of Senga Nendudi s R.S.V.P. sculptures (2014). She has taught art history at New York University and lectured throughout the country on modern and contemporary art. She holds art history degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Drew Sawyer is the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum. Previously, he was Head of Exhibitions and the William J. and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. His most recent exhibition, Family Pictures, explored the legacy of Roy DeCarava s 1955 book The Sweet Flypaper of Life, and included works by John Edmonds, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Lorraine O Grady, Gordon Parks, Sondra Perry, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems.
Book Information
ISBN 9780847864911
Author Nora Burnett Abrams
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Mondadori Electa
Publisher Mondadori Electa
