Francesca Woodman

1972-75 (SFMoMA, p. 172, same sitting)

Gift of the photographer to the present owner, 1970s, when students together at the Rhode Island School of Design

This print, on creamy double-weight paper with a surface sheen, has been printed somewhat asymetrically on the sheet. It is in generally excellent condition.
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The present image, which Francesca Woodman made in a Boulder cemetery as a teenager, is from a series in which she is nude or partially-clad among the nineteenth-century graves.  Corey Keller has written, 'At times her body dissolves into a ghostly blur of motion; at others she presses parts of her body into the decorative openings of the tombstones, contrasting nubile, earthly flesh with rough, cold stone. The exploration of space and architecture, and the simultaneous seductiveness and blankness of the nude body are themes around which her later work revolved' (Francesca Woodman, SFMoMA, p. 172).