FRANCESCA WOODMAN, SELECTED WORKS

"Words influence me a lot more than politics but I especially like allusive, indirect literary phrases + metaphors...

I would like words to be to my photographs what the photographs are to the text in Andre Breton's 'Nadia.' He picks out the allusions and enigmatic details of some rather ordinary unmysterious snapshots and elaborates them into a story. I'd like my photographs to condense experience.

I use nudes partly in an ironic sense like classical painting nudes. I want my pictures to have a certain timeless, personal but allegorical quality like they do in say [I]ngres history paintings, but I like the rough edge that photography gives a nude. I like watching the immediacy of a photograph struggle with 'timeless imagery' the way it does in say a pictorialist photograph." - Francesca Woodman, 1979