francesca woodman – personal study image analysis

Francesca Woodmans work

In this image Francesca Woodman has placed herself spinning in the centre of the photograph, to draw attention to the movement. She looks like she is in a car park, which makes the image seem both mysterious, but also could be portraying her loneliness. Francesca Woodman used a slow shutter speed to give the effect of a blur by capturing more of the movement before the photograph was taken completely. The fact that the people seem anonymous makes the photo appear lifeless, possibly representing her lack of identity through her depression.

Technically this image would’ve been more difficult in the sense that it’s a self portrait, so Francesca Woodman would’ve had to have her camera on a tripod on a timer so that she was able to be both the photographer and the subject in the image. In terms of lighting, I would assume that Woodman used artificial lighting already present at the location because it looks like there is a light directly above her providing minimal light as the rest of the image is significantly darker.

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