01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francesca Stern Woodma's POLKA DOTS, with Footnotes. #103

Francesca Stern Woodman, 1958-1981

POLKA DOTS, c. 1976

Photograph

5½ by 5½ in. (14 by 14 cm.)

Private collection

Woodman’s polka-dot dress is a regular staple of her RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) period. She is wearing it in several self-portraits taken against the same wall, crouching as if to fit herself within the square frame or turning her back to the camera in a blurry jump. The dress appears in images made while studying abroad with RISD in Italy (1977-78), and still later when she moves to New York in 1979. More on this work

Francesca Stern Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. Her work continues to be the subject of much critical acclaim and attention, years after she died by suicide at the age of 22, in 1981. More Francesca Stern Woodman

At age thirteen, Woodman took her first self-portrait. From then on, until her untimely death., she produced over 800 images. The photographs, recognized for their unique vision and range of innovative techniques, have been the subject of extensive critical study. Woodman’s images, self-portraits and explorations of the female body

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