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| Francesca Woodman, Some Disordered Interior Geometries, New York 1981 (immagini dal link) |
Francesca Woodman (Denver 1958 - New York 1981) fu una fotografa statunitense dalla vita breve ma intensa, che ha lasciato un profondo segno nella fotografia mondiale.
Immagini intimiste, in bianco e nero, prevalentemente incentrate su se stessa o su soggetti femminili: questa la sua arte, che nelle aste mondiali viene battuta a cifre da capogiro.
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| Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Roma 1977-1978 |
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| Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Roma 1977-1978 |
Il libro che vi propongo è stato concepito come una sorta di notebook molto sofferto, ricolmo di annotazioni e scarabocchi alternati a 16 fotografie originali alla gelatina d'argento. Il concetto cardine è l'introduzione alla geometria euclidea, anche se è molto di più.
E' l'unico che abbia realizzato, pubblicato nello stesso anno della sua morte nel 1981, avvenuta per suicidio. Da qui la sua importanza e la sua valutazione molto alta: una sua copia anastatica è salita nella vetta dei libri più venduti da Abebooks nel 2013 (17.500 dollari).
Segno che i libri fotografici stanno conquistando una fetta di pubblico sempre più ampia, sulla scia del generale interesse per la fotografia di cui ho già scritto e scriverò ancora.
Francesco Woodman (Denver 1958 - New York 1981) was an American photographer with a short but intense life, that left a deep mark on the worldwide photography.
Intimistic black and white images, mostly concentrated on her own or female subjects: this was her art, which go for extremely high prices at auction.
The book I'm suggesting was conceived as a sort of a very suffered notebook, full of annotations and sketches alternated by 16 original gelatin silver photographs. The main concept is the introduction of Euclidean geometry, although is much more than that.
It's the only one that she ever realized, published the same year of her death in 1981, caused by suicide. This is one of the reasons that this book is worth so much: an anastatic copy of it reaches the top ten of the most expensive book sold by Abebooks in 2013 (17,500 dollars). Proving that photography books are conquering a huge number of public, in the wake of the general interest in photography about which I already wrote and I will do again.
Francesco Woodman (Denver 1958 - New York 1981) was an American photographer with a short but intense life, that left a deep mark on the worldwide photography.
Intimistic black and white images, mostly concentrated on her own or female subjects: this was her art, which go for extremely high prices at auction.
The book I'm suggesting was conceived as a sort of a very suffered notebook, full of annotations and sketches alternated by 16 original gelatin silver photographs. The main concept is the introduction of Euclidean geometry, although is much more than that.
It's the only one that she ever realized, published the same year of her death in 1981, caused by suicide. This is one of the reasons that this book is worth so much: an anastatic copy of it reaches the top ten of the most expensive book sold by Abebooks in 2013 (17,500 dollars). Proving that photography books are conquering a huge number of public, in the wake of the general interest in photography about which I already wrote and I will do again.
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