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(13,654 posts)Francesca Woodman. I'd not known of her until your post today littlemisssmartypants. Amazing photographer.
She took this self-portrait when she was 13.

From the little I've read and pictures I've seen Woodman was an unusal photographer. But not for long.
* "At the age of 22, after a period of depression, some apparent setbacks in her career and the end of a relationship, she threw herself from a window in New York."
https://briangdillon.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/vanishing-act/
"We will never know how Francesca Woodmans work might have developed. But the prolific body of photographs that she left behind, though fully realized, speaks to a young artist finding her way. In turn, Woodman laid the foundation for women to self-inquire by turning the camera on themselves."
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-reevaluating-francesca-woodman-early-death-haunts-groundbreaking-images
It's like for her short life Woodman was haunted, driven, misunderstood. I can appreciate the uniqueness of her art, but hers was a sad story.


