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Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an American photographer known for her black-and-white self-portraits. Despite her short career, which ended with her suicide at the age of 22, Woodman produced over 800 untitled prints during her life. Influenced by Surrealism and Conceptual Art, her work often featured recurring symbolic motifs such as birds, mirrors, and skulls. The artist’s exploration of sexuality and the body is often compared to both Hans Bellmer and Man Ray. “I feel like I a floating in plasma. I need a teacher or a lover,” she once wrote. “I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic.

Troubled by a failed relationship and feeling that her work was not gaining attention, Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from a loft window on January 19, 1981 in New York City.