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Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel
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Product Description
On Being an Angel gathers a selection of photographs by Francesca Woodman, offering an intimate look at the short yet profoundly influential body of work she produced in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Working primarily in black and white, Woodman photographed herself and her surroundings with a sensitivity that feels both deeply personal and quietly theatrical. Figures appear blurred, partially hidden, or dissolving into the architecture around them — bodies merging with walls, mirrors, windows, and fragments of interior space.
Throughout the book, the photographs move between presence and disappearance. The body becomes something unstable: a gesture, a trace, a fleeting form caught mid-movement. Woodman’s images often feel suspended between vulnerability and transformation, as if the camera is recording moments where identity briefly slips out of focus.
On Being an Angel presents these photographs with care and restraint, allowing Woodman’s distinctive visual language — fragile, enigmatic, and deeply expressive — to unfold across the sequence.
Key Features
Artist: Francesca Woodman
Publisher: London: Moderna Museet
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: approx. 7.5 × 9.5 inches (19 × 24 cm)
Page Count: 120 pages
Printing: Duotone black-and-white reproductions
Binding: Casebound
Language: English
Release Year: 2018
Lab Notes
Francesca Woodman’s photographs feel less like portraits and more like apparitions.
Most of these images were made when she was still in her early twenties, often working alone in quiet interiors with a tripod and a long exposure. The result is a body of work where the figure is constantly shifting — blurred, fragmented, or dissolving into the space around it.
There’s something powerful about how simple the setup often is: a room, a wall, a mirror, a body moving through the frame. But the photographs carry an emotional weight far beyond their scale.
For photographers, Woodman’s work is a reminder that experimentation and vulnerability can be inseparable. These images don’t try to resolve themselves — they stay open, fragile, and alive in the space between presence and disappearance.
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Francesca Woodman
About
Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) was an American photographer whose deeply personal black-and-white photographs have become some of the most influential images in contemporary photography. Working primarily during her teenage years and early twenties, Woodman created a body of work that explored identity, the body, and the relationship between figure and space. Often using long exposures and self-portraiture, her photographs blur the boundaries between subject and environment, creating images where the body appears to dissolve into architectural interiors and natural textures. Though her career was brief, Woodman’s work has had a lasting impact on generations of photographers and artists. Her photographs are held in major museum collections worldwide and continue to be widely exhibited and published.
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