Christian L. Frock, KQED Arts, 17 November 2011
An extensive exhibition of vintage photographic prints, along with rarely seen artist books and video, from the short but prolific career of Francesca Woodman opened this month at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The 174 works on view regularly feature Woodman experimenting with the placement of her own often nude form in contrast with the crumbling interiors of abandoned buildings. Spare and elegant, these black and white images sometimes read like lost illustrations from early feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 19th century short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," with Woodman appearing to blend at times with the architecture...
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