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Francesca Woodman

In The Frame: Francesca Woodman's Self-Portrait Legacy

Art and Design post by Polly Allen on November 21, 2011 - 12:27pm; tagged female artists, Francesca Woodman, nudity, photography, role models, the female nude.
Her artistic career may have been short—she was taking photos for only nine years of her life—but Francesca Woodman left behind over 800 images when she died in 1981. She commands enough attention, 30 years after her death, to merit a retrospective at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, which will move on to the Guggenheim in 2012. What is the lingering hold that she has over art lovers?
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