Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman is a photographer that produced a lot of work at a very young age involving her body as a subject primarily. Her photographs display movement provoking shapes that are intriguing and curious to view. Most of her photographs seem to revolve around the female body and display a quite lonely feeling overall. Personally, this is how I read her work because there is not much literature that the artist herself write about her work.  Her work was primarily produced in her undergraduate studies and the few years after before she committed suicide. Most people allow her personal story to translate her work, and although it does inform it, I believe her work stretches beyond that story. Her photographs are provocative both in terms of sexuality of the female and in an innovative translation of photography.