Francesca Woodman News & Updates

Francesca Woodman Was a Photographic Oracle of an Ancient World

A 21-year-old Francesca Woodman stares out of the photograph with a piercing gaze that is startlingl...

Apr 03, 2024 • Artnet

A Formal Take on Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman, “Zig Zag Study, New York” (1980), archival pigment estate print, 14.25 x 75.5...

Sep 23, 2014 • Hyperallergic

Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman is known for her exquisite compositions that feature ghostly portrayals of herself...

Feb 22, 2017 • Artnet news

On the Wall: Francesca Woodman at The Guggenheim

Francesca Woodman, House #4, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976, Gelatin silver print, 14.6 x 14.6 cm Co...

Mar 16, 2012 • Popular Photography

Retrospective: Looking Back on Francesca Woodman’s Prolific Career

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Nov 04, 2011 • Time

The Unseen Photos Of Francesca Woodman

The legend of Francesca Woodman looms large, even 38 years after her death at age 22. The precocious...

Aug 22, 2019 • Wall Street Journal

Francesca Woodman: Trapped in Time

Francesca Woodman will forever be no more than 22 years old. That's how old she was when she chose t...

Mar 22, 2012 • Yahoo! Sports

Francesca Woodman / edited by Corey Keller ; with essays by Jennifer Blessing and Julia Bryan-Wilson

Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-78 -- Italy, 1977-78 -- MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire...

Jul 15, 2022 • insider.si.edu

Horizontale, Providence, Rhode Island

Image: 5.1 x 4.8 in. (12.95 x 12.19 cm.) Francesca Woodman was an American photographer known for he...

May 03, 2026 • Artnet news

Photographing Female Identity In The 1970s

I remember the first time I came across a Francesca Woodman photograph. It was of a naked figure –...

Dec 13, 2015 • Refinery29

Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: fascinating exchanges between two photographers a century apart

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Mar 19, 2024 • Yahoo

Is Francesca Woodman the Sylvia Plath of Photography?

I was already halfway through A Confederacy of Dunces when I learned that author John Kennedy Toole ...

Mar 28, 2012 • Slate

MCA Denver Will Give Francesca Woodman Her First Major Colorado Exhibit

Legendary photographer Francesca Woodman, who was born in 1958, spent most of her childhood in Color...

Jul 07, 2019 • Westword

Frames of Reference in the Photography of Francesca Woodman

An extensive exhibition of vintage photographic prints, along with rarely seen artist books and vide...

Nov 15, 2011 • KQED

Tragedy informs view of Francesca Woodman's art

On Jan. 19, 1981, 22-year-old Francesca Woodman jumped from a New York City loft to her death, leavi...

Dec 08, 2011 • SFGate

Two Pioneering Photographers’ Versions of Femininity

LONDON — Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In at the National Portr...

Jun 10, 2024 • Hyperallergic

Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: experimental portrait photography

"Just over 100 years separate the creative lives of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman," s...

Apr 03, 2024 • THE WEEK

Two Visionary Women Photographers Collide in Unexpected Museum Showcase

This timeless appeal is inevitably foregrounded throughout the impressively original London exhibiti...

May 02, 2024 • Artnet

The Woodmans

C. Scott Willis could have made a documentary about a suicide. Francesca Woodman was a beautiful you...

Feb 24, 2011 • The Stranger

Francesca Woodman: Lately I Find a Sliver of Mirror Is Simply to Slice an Eyelid

Gagosian is pleased to present Lately I Find a Sliver of Mirror Is Simply to Slice an Eyelid, an exh...

Apr 28, 2026 • Artnet news

Untitled, from Angel Series, Rome, Italy

Image: 3.75 x 3.75 in. (9.52 x 9.52 cm.) Francesca Woodman was an American photographer known for he...

Apr 29, 2024 • Artnet news

Francesca Woodman : Roma 1977-1981 / [edited by Giuseppe Casetti and Francesco Stocchi]

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Francesca Woodman, photographs 1977-1981, il museo del ...

Aug 12, 2025 • insider.si.edu

A Show in Rome Sheds New Light on Francesca Woodman’s Haunting Images

The American photographer died at just 22, and yet the beautiful, unsettling work she created contin...

May 04, 2026 • The New York Times

Hannah Wilke and Francesca Woodman: Feminist Powerhouses of the Late 20th Century

Towards the end of the 20th century, photography underwent a thrilling transformation, as cultural r...

Apr 23, 2026 • MutualArt.com