ABSTRACT
Francesca Woodman's book Some Disordered Interior Geometries, like her senior exhibit at the Rhode Island School of Design called Swan Song, suggests elegy. Here it is important to note a couple of facts about Some Disordered Interior Geometries: to create this book, Woodman purchased an old used geometry primer written in Italian, Esercizi Graduati di Geometria, and placed her artwork in that primer. It begins with the premise of perspectivism as that which creates the interior, but the interior becomes disorderly in Woodman's photographic space. The most important point about Some Disordered Interior Geometries is that here Woodman establishes the sustained statement that photographs are geometry. Woodman's interiors comment on the chaotic trick of photography's verisimilitude. But her disorderly interiors also are set in a strict geometrical schema. She claimed her aesthetic allegiance to Victorian imagery, and her photographs notably echo the closed quarters of Clementina Viscountess Hawarden and Julia Margaret Cameron.
