NOW ON VIEW “Francesca Woodman: Alternate Stories” at Marian Goodman Gallery through December 23rd.

Francesca Woodman was well-acquainted with the traditions of Classical Western art and representations of the figure within it, which seeped into her own picture-making. While perhaps better-known for her photographs of the full female body—she specified that she used nudes “in an ironic sense like classical painting nudes"—Woodman returned again and again to highly composed glimpses of hands and feet. These mysterious and formally inventive fragments of the figure recall the exaggerated gestures of Mannerist painting, its distortions of space and perspective, and use of movement, all characteristics inherent to the medium of black and white photography as well.

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