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Francesca Stern Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. Her work continues to be the subject of much critical acclaim and attention, years after she killed herself at the age of 22, in 1981. == Life == Woodman was born to artists George Woodman and Betty Woodman (Abrahams).〔〔MacMillan, Kyle. Haunting vision: Francesca Woodman explored the ephemeral realm between what is/isn't. ''Denver Post'', 2006 December 17.〕 Her mother is Jewish and her father is from a Protestant background. Her older brother, Charles, later became an associate professor of electronic art.〔(Video works Charles Woodman, photographs Francesca Woodman, May 6 – June 16, 2005. ) Notes for an exhibition at Shirley-Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Accessed 2007-09-07.〕 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. She began high school in 1972 at Abbot Academy, a private Massachusetts boarding school. There, she began to develop her photographic skills and became interested in the art form. Abbot Academy merged with Phillips Academy in 1973; Woodman graduated from the public Boulder High School in 1975. Through 1975, she spent summers with her family in Italy〔(p. 154)〔 in the Florentine countryside, where the family lived on an old farm. Beginning in 1975, Woodman attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island. She studied in Rome between 1977 and 1978 in a RISD honors program. Because she spoke fluent Italian, she was able to befriend Italian intellectuals and artists.〔(pp. 26–30,154) She returned to Rhode Island in late 1978 to graduate from RISD.〔(p. 154)〔 Woodman moved to New York City in 1979. After spending the summer of 1979 in Stanwood, Seattle whilst visiting her boyfriend at Pilchuck Glass School, she returned to New York "to make a career in photography." She sent portfolios of her work to fashion photographers, but "her solicitations did not lead anywhere".〔(p. 155) In the summer of 1980, she was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.〔(p. 155)〔 In late 1980, Woodman became depressed due to the failure of her work to attract attention and to a broken relationship.〔Riding, Alan. (Pictures, perhaps, of her despair: a young photographer's work may or may not hold clues to her suicide. ) New York Times, 1998-05-17.〕 She survived a suicide attempt in the autumn of 1980, after which she lived with her parents in Manhattan.〔Gumport, Elizabeth. (The Long Exposure of Francesca Woodman. ) New York Review of Books, 2011-01-24. Accessed 2011-11-16.〕 On January 19, 1981, Woodman died by suicide, jumping out of a loft window of a building on the East Side of New York.〔(p. 155)〔 An acquaintance wrote, "things had been bad, there had been therapy, things had gotten better, guard had been let down".〔 Her father has suggested that Woodman's suicide was related to an unsuccessful application for funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.〔Hoberman, J. (Photographer Francesca Woodman Gets Her Close-Up in a Haunting Family Study. ) Village Voice, 2011-01-19. Accessed 2011-11-16.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francesca Woodman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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