"…[T]hings have a life, greater or smaller, in the eye and the mind. This life unfolds, no limits can be set upon it, and the way it happens may be similar or very dissimilar from one person to another,” George Woodman wrote of objects generally, when considering those housed in museum collections, but these observations illuminate his own approach to still life and photography. The Woodman Family Foundation Archives include an eclectic array of found objects, toys and fabrics used by Woodman in his photographs. Likely collected from flea markets in New York, Italy and on his wide-ranging travels, or found closer to home among more ordinary personal ephemera, Woodman reinvented these various objects, incorporating them into his layered images of figures, patterns, props and pictures.

‍

Click on the image above for a complete gallery view and details