ABSTRACT

Francesca Woodman was an American photographer who took pictures of women whose images were often difficult to decipher due to the fact that they merge with their surroundings or, as a result of long exposure times, are blurred or obscured. Poet and critic Ariana Reines wrote that, “the fact that (Woodman) appears in her own photographs has caused many to mistake them for self-portraits, which they are not.”