Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze

Taylor & Francis

Francesca Woodman's Dark GazeThe Diazotypes and Other Late Works\nAuthor(s): Claire Raymond\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472457127, 978-1472457127\nSynopsis\nFocusing on the later work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman [tel], Claire Raymond takes up the question of the disintegrative condition of the art she produced in the last year of her life. Departing from the techniques of her earlier compositions, Woodman worked in the diazotype process for many of these late pieces, most importantly the monumental Blueprint for a Temple. Raymond shows that through her use of diazotype, a medium that breaks down when exposed to light, Woodman created art that is both supremely evocative aesthetically and inherently unstable physically. Woodman, Raymond contends, was imaginatively responding to the end of the durable image, a historical reality acknowledged in the way her work plays the ephemeral and evanes.