THE ARTIST'S BOOK - Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman made her first mature photographs at the age of thirteen and went on to create a body of work that has been critically acclaimed for its singularity of style and innovative approach to photography. Despite her lifetime accomplishments - which included solo and group exhibitions and the publication of one of her books - and her work being celebrated widely in the years since her untimely death in 1981, very little has been published about her remarkable series of artist's books until now.
Francesca Woodman: The Artist's Books brings together for the first time every page of Francesca Woodman's eight unique artist's books in one complete volume, including two newly discovered books that have never been seen before, alongside better-known titles such as Certain Disordered Interior Geometries. The basis for these books can be found in tattered 19th and early 20th-century journals and notebooks that Woodman collected in Rome's bookshops and flea markets in the late 1970s. She then transformed these found volumes, attaching her prints, transparencies and written annotations to their evocative pages. These books demonstrate a sophisticated relationship with narrative and sequence, and offer a new understanding of the scope of Woodman's engagement with the book form.
Published by Mack Books, 2023
24.5 cm x 30 cm, 416 pages, new
ISBN 9781913620882
Francesca Woodman made her first mature photographs at the age of thirteen and went on to create a body of work that has been critically acclaimed for its singularity of style and innovative approach to photography. Despite her lifetime accomplishments - which included solo and group exhibitions and the publication of one of her books - and her work being celebrated widely in the years since her untimely death in 1981, very little has been published about her remarkable series of artist's books until now.
Francesca Woodman: The Artist's Books brings together for the first time every page of Francesca Woodman's eight unique artist's books in one complete volume, including two newly discovered books that have never been seen before, alongside better-known titles such as Certain Disordered Interior Geometries. The basis for these books can be found in tattered 19th and early 20th-century journals and notebooks that Woodman collected in Rome's bookshops and flea markets in the late 1970s. She then transformed these found volumes, attaching her prints, transparencies and written annotations to their evocative pages. These books demonstrate a sophisticated relationship with narrative and sequence, and offer a new understanding of the scope of Woodman's engagement with the book form.
Published by Mack Books, 2023
24.5 cm x 30 cm, 416 pages, new
ISBN 9781913620882
Francesca Woodman made her first mature photographs at the age of thirteen and went on to create a body of work that has been critically acclaimed for its singularity of style and innovative approach to photography. Despite her lifetime accomplishments - which included solo and group exhibitions and the publication of one of her books - and her work being celebrated widely in the years since her untimely death in 1981, very little has been published about her remarkable series of artist's books until now.
Francesca Woodman: The Artist's Books brings together for the first time every page of Francesca Woodman's eight unique artist's books in one complete volume, including two newly discovered books that have never been seen before, alongside better-known titles such as Certain Disordered Interior Geometries. The basis for these books can be found in tattered 19th and early 20th-century journals and notebooks that Woodman collected in Rome's bookshops and flea markets in the late 1970s. She then transformed these found volumes, attaching her prints, transparencies and written annotations to their evocative pages. These books demonstrate a sophisticated relationship with narrative and sequence, and offer a new understanding of the scope of Woodman's engagement with the book form.
Published by Mack Books, 2023
24.5 cm x 30 cm, 416 pages, new
ISBN 9781913620882
