Monday, April 07, 2008

Francesca Woodman

When I was in the main centre at Cove Park on Friday, chatting to Julian, Polly and Sarah before setting off to the dizzy social whirl of the Knockderry House Hotel for a drink, we ended up discussing a photo spotted on the front of a brochure from Dundee Contemporary Arts that was kicking about, advertising an exhibition of photographs that includes those of Francesca Woodman, who took the photo below:

Apparently she died at the age of only 23, but her photos are amazingly strange and beautiful. And in many cases, extremely cunning - I'm not entirely sure how she did some of them. I also really liked this one, which was in the brochure too:

1 comment:

jennifer said...

those photos are awesome. thanks for sharing them!