ABSTRACT
This chapter considers Francesca Woodman's fashion photographs, a small number of images only some of which were clearly created by her to be fashion shots. This book has focused on Woodman's later works, Blueprint for a Temple and Some Disordered Interior Geometries, as well as interpreting the Portrait of a Reputation. And yet, even while she was creating an oeuvre of haunting power, broadening her reach in her later works, she was also attempting fashion photography: a paradox. Many of the photographs at the Marian Goodman Gallery's 2015 exhibit Trying My Hand at Fashion Photography were shown for the first time. Given the scattered dates and places of the fashion photographs, she apparently tried her hand at fashion here and there several times, with increasing interest and intensity in New York City in the year before her death.
