Tomoko Sawada web. Francesca Woodman. Francesca Woodman Victoria Miro Gallery, London. 19 June – 28 July 2007 Francesca Woodman's photographs have consistently garnered critical attention since her premature death in the early eighties and this exhibition at Victoria Miro comes in the wake of the publication of a major monograph and a solo display at Tate Modern. The American artist's work is rarely written about without some mention of the dramatic biography behind it: Woodman began taking photographs as a young teenager, producing around 800 before her suicide aged 22 in 1981. This apparent precocity and intensity of production, coupled with the fact that Woodman frequently made herself the subject of her pictures, often colours interpretation of her work.
However, it is important not to see her body of work and her life story as some kind of neat totality, each fully illustrating the other. Amongst the wide range of work on show it is Woodman's apparently more off-the-cuff pieces which have the greatest impact. Home - Cindy Sherman - Photographer, Model, Director, Actor, Avant-Garde Images, Doll Parts and Prosthetics, Movies. The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.