Untitled (Providence, Rhode Island)
(c. 1975-1978); printed (after 1981)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
13.7 × 13.8 cm (image) 25.3 × 20.3 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2025
© Woodman Family Foundation/ARS/DACS/Copyright Agency, 2023
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Francesca Woodman is known for her intimate black-and-white self-portraits and photographs featuring other women sitters. The bodies are often blurred, with faces hidden and appearing to blend into the background. In this self-portrait, Woodman crouches down in the corner of a decrepit room, her patterned gown somehow reflecting – or merging with – the floral wallpaper that peels down in rough remnants behind her. The photograph was created while Woodman was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, where she studied from 1975 to 1978 and which produced the majority of her extant photographs following her untimely death in 1981.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Rhode Island, United States
Edition
ed. 4/40
Accession Number
2025.523
Department
International Photography