Francesca Woodman - Photographs 1977-1981

Francesca Woodman, Giuseppe Casetti, Francesco Stocchi

AGMA Publishing

2012

132 páginas

4h 24m

ISBN-13: 9783950314908

Francesca Woodman spent the year 1977-78 in Rome as a Rhode Island School of Design study abroad student. During that period, Giuseppe Casetti and Paolo Missigoi opened Maldoror, a tiny bookshop specialized in XX century avant-garde.

One day, Francesca Woodman came up to the Maldoror and handed a grey cloth box and said, “I’m a photographer. If you want, you can do something with this grey box.” That was how Woodman’s first exhibition in 1978 was organized.

The photographs, letters, postcards, drawings, sketches gathered together in the volume Francesca Woodman – Photographs 1977-1981 published by AGMA, are traces of her life that Francesca left her friends in Rome.

This visual narrative, accompanied by extensive notes and direct witnesses, is the first publication dedicated to the artist’s most productive and inspiring years.