Francesca Woodman Hardcover – March 31, 2013

This publication is not only beautifully appointed, but dramatically so. Woodman's work is awesome as to ingenuity and technique, as well as extremely pertinent to the history of photography as an art form. Self-portraiture runs always the risk of acritically assuming the truth of autobiography. Sadly, too many works about Woodman study her work in search of symptoms of her eventual suicide. In doing so, they miss the great photographer that Woodman was. Photography, as Woodman seemed to know very well, is not about truth, but about art, about world-building, and having in hand her whole work in this book helps us better understand what this excellent artist was intent on doing.

A beautiful layout, perfect size, and amazingly complete selection of Woodman's work, this is a great selection if you are interested in owning a definitive monograph of the majority of her output as a young photographer. Very insightful essays provide a lot of information about the artist, and critical assessment of her work from a very large cross-section of viewpoints. i recommend this volume highly.

I find everything about Francesca Woodman to be somewhat haunting. In some sense she's like visual Rimbaud, but I am so sorry that she didn't just throw over her visual poetry and walk away from it, like he did his verbal poetry, but she did what she did. I am just very glad and very moved by what she did before her death. And this is a lovely book of her work and of writing about that work.

She loved this book! She's a photography student and has shown it to her fellow students and professors. All agree it's an amazingly wonderful work on the photographer Francesca Woodman and her life. I can't say more because I have only looked it over before gifting it to her. But I think the words of these professionals and students are good enough. I'm SO glad I found just the right gift for a much loved daughter.

In the last year as a photographer, I have two big surprises. One was Vivian Maier and now, Francesca Woodman. The books are fantastic as usual. They represents exactly the work of this great women and photographers.

Recently found out about Francesca Woodman while in Roma. Happy to have this large book of her photos with essays. She did too young. I wonder where she might have gone with her work had she lived longer. A lovely book.

A good collection of incredibly inspiring vision from a very young artist. Her tragic life story (unfortunately) often overshadows the work itself and lends melancholy to it. But people who knew her personally insist that she was not always a morbid person when she was making her art. Either way I look at it, I always get a very strong reaction whilst viewing her work.

My daughter has just started taking photography, so obviously this book was a must have. The photographs by Ms. Woodman are beautiful and to a young photographer...inspiring.

Un gran libro (también por su tamaño) de una fotógrafa con una historia personal inquietante que reflejó como pocos en sus fotos (la mayoría autorretratos). Merece mucho la pena.

Incredible

Photographe tres interessante en elle même et par rapport à la periode de la photo aux etats unis dans les années 70. Une artiste singulière suicidée tres tôt. Images d'elle meme en tant que femme.

Sensibel, träumerisch und sehr kreativ! Dieses Buch ist Poesie in Fotos, schade, dass Francesca Woodmann so wenig bekannt ist, hoffentlich änderst das sich bald. Für jeden kreativen Menschen wie ein Gedicht von Baudelaire!

Bellissimo catalogo sull'opera fotografica dell'artista americana Francesca Woodman. Il libro è curato molto bene e contiene foto inedite. Il prezzo proposto attualmente su amazon (€ 33,75) è ottimo per un libro di questa fattura. Il lavoro artistico della Woodman è emozionante, unico nel suo genere. Consigliato a tutte le persone che amano l'arte e la poesia.