Chris Wiley writes about a new show at the Gagosian Gallery that showcases the works of the late photographer Francesca Woodman.
George gave Francesca her first camera when she was thirteen, and she soon started to make daring images in a haunted, romantic style that was distinctively her own. One picture shows her standing naked save for calf-high white socks, her head out of frame and a shadow falling across her torso, next to a virginal white lily, like the ones she would have seen in countless Renaissance paintings.
” Either way, it is hard to think of a photographer who was more successful in fashioning herself into a kind of otherworldly being. A significant portion of the Gagosian exhibition is given over to pictures that Woodman made during a year she spent studying abroad in Rome. Rankin, who lived with Woodman throughout that time, told me that Woodman later referred to that period as her “halcyon days.” She and the city were well matched.
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