Sunday 12 October 2008

Francesca Woodman




I've never looked at the work of Francesca Woodman previously, but i feel it lends itself to the idea of a personal space. What, in the above two images has forced these people to hide away like that? They have curled up into their own tight, private spaces to hide perhaps? The composition in the two images is fantastic and really works well with the idea that the people are hiding away in their own intimate bodily space.




The image at the bottom here looks amazing! The whole composition of it and arrangement of things within the frame works really well. There is something particularly striking about the chair in the foreground, and it really adds something to the surrealism of the image.

I almost feel like with these photographs I'm intruding on the personal space of the people in them.

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