Francesca Woodman

Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, blurred , merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. Her work continues to be the subject of much critical acclaim and attention, years after she killed herself at the age of 22, in 1981.

Woodman was born to artists George Woodman and Betty Woodman . Her mother is Jewish and her father is from a Protestant background. Her older brother, Charles, later became an associate professor of electronic art.

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