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Masters of Photography - Francesca Woodman

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Photography © The Estate of Francesca Woodman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Woodman
American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) is best known for black-and-white pictures of herself and of female models. Many of her photographs show young women, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or with their faces obscured. Years after her suicide at the age of 22, her photographic works became the subject of much attention, including many exhibitions and books.
She was born April 3, 1958, in Denver, Colorado, to well-known artists George Woodman (ceramicist, painter, and photographer) and Betty Woodman
Beginning in 1975, Woodman attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island. She studied in Rome, Italy between 1977 and 1978 in a RISD honors program. As she spoke fluent Italian, she was able to befriend Italian intellectuals and artists. She went back to Rhode Island in late 1978 to graduate from RISD.
Woodman moved to New York City in 1979. After spending summer 1979 in Stanwood, Washington, she returned to New York. There, "to make a career in photography" she sent portfolios of her work to fashion photographers, but "her solicitations did not lead anywhere."
In summer 1980 she was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
In late 1980 Woodman became depressed due to her work and to a broken relationship. On January 19, 1981, she committed suicide by jumping out a loft window in New York. An acquaintance wrote "things had been bad, there had been therapy, things had gotten better, guard had been let down."
Although Woodman used different cameras and film formats during her career, most of her photographs were taken with a Yashica camera producing 2-1/4 by 2-1/4 inch square negatives that her father had given her. Woodman created at least 10,000 negatives which her parents now keep. Woodman's estate, which is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, consists of over 800 prints of which "only around 120 images have ever been published or exhibited.".
Many of Woodman's images are untitled and are known only by a location and date.
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Music- Vai Vedrai (go, you'll see) by Cirque du Soleil.
Please, visit Cirque du Soleil's site, buy its music as I did.
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/world/es/es/index.asp
lyrics
go, go child, go, you'll see, go
go, go little one, go you'll see, go
you'll see where fortune walks
you can't reach there with the heart any more
only with your feet on the moon
oh my child, you'll see
go and you'll see that
a smile often hides a great sorrow
go and you'll see
the madness of mankind
madness of mankind without rightness, go
madness of warriors without fear, go
madness of a child full of life
who, playing at paradise
as a soldier was killed
My child you will see
go and you'll see that a smile
often hides a great sorrow
go and you'll see
the madness of mankind

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