1. Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models.
17 Facts About Francesca Woodman
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Francesca Woodman's work continues to be the subject of much positive critical attention, years after her death at the age of 22, in 1981.
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Francesca Woodman's mother was Jewish and her father was from a Protestant background.
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Francesca Woodman took her first self-portrait at age thirteen and continued photographing herself until she died.
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Francesca Woodman attended public school in Boulder, Colorado, between 1963 and 1971, except for second grade, which she attended in Italy, where the family spent many summers between school years.
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Francesca Woodman began high school in 1972 at Abbot Academy, a private Massachusetts boarding school.
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Abbot Academy merged with Phillips Academy in 1973; Francesca Woodman graduated from the public Boulder High School in 1975.
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Francesca Woodman studied in Rome between 1977 and 1978 in a RISD honors program.
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Francesca Woodman returned to Rhode Island in late 1978 to graduate from RISD.
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In late 1980, Francesca Woodman became depressed owing to the failure of her work to attract attention and because of a broken relationship.
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Francesca Woodman survived a suicide attempt in the autumn of 1980, after which she lived with her parents in Manhattan.
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On January 19,1981, Francesca Woodman died by suicide at age 22 by jumping out of a loft window of a building on the East Side of New York City.
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Francesca Woodman's father has suggested that Woodman's suicide was related to an unsuccessful application for funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Francesca Woodman created at least 10,000 negatives, which her parents kept.
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Many of Francesca Woodman's images are untitled and are known only by a location and date.
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Francesca Woodman often took photographs indoors, finding abandoned and derelict spaces in which to create her photographic tableaux.
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Francesca Woodman created a number of artist's books, such as Portrait of a Reputation, Quaderno dei Dettati e dei Temi, Quaderno, Portraits Friends Equasions, and Angels, Calendar Notebook.