Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), fotografa, decise di porre fine ai suoi giorni all'età di 23 anni. Ci lascia scatti, soprattutto autoscatti, surreali e allucinati e che lasciano trasparire allo stesso tempo una grande libertà e maturità espressiva, nonostante fosse così giovane, e una grande inquietudine, come una voragine che si apre inghiottendo lo sguardo. Negli anni settanta ha vissuto per alcuni periodi in Italia. E' stata anche a Ravenna dove ha fotografato nella chiesa di S. Francesco e in altri luoghi della città.
Non ne so molto di più. Con le sue opere c'è stato un incontro recente, casuale ma intenso. Desideravo giusto segnalarlo.

vi lascio una breve biografia:
Brought up in a family of artists, Francesca Woodman (born in 1958 in Denver, Colorado) took an interest in photography from a very early age and was only thirteen when her first works were made. She soon adopted black and white photography, choosing 21/4 inch square format. As a student at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence between 1975 and 1979, she was accepted into the Honors Program which enabled her to spend a year at the school’s campus in the sumptuous Palazzo Cenci in Rome. During that year (1977-78), Francesca frequented the Maldoror bookshop-gallery, which specialized in art books on Surrealism and Futurism. It was here that her first one-woman show was held. She also met the young generation of the Roman Transavanguardia. After returning to the United States and completing her studies at Providence, Francesca Woodman moved to New York, where she embarked on more ambitious projects, making large blueprints on blue or brown paper as well as designing several books of her own photographs. Some Disordered Interior Geometries, the only one of her books to be published, came out in January 1981, at which date she took her own life.