Publications

Thrilled to announce that “Betty Woodman: Conversations on the Shore, Works from the 1990s”—the exhibition catalogue designed by Laura Coombs for Woodman’s 2022 solo show at David Kordansky Gallery—has been named a Winner of AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2024.

George Woodman’s still life photography bears unmistakable traces of his decades-long career as a painter: His compositions—re-photographed prints and negatives, fruits and drapery, sculptures and paintings collapsed into a single pictorial space—are at once witty and rich in art historical allusion.

Published in May 2025, the anthology "Parentheses of Reception" explores how the parenthesis, a rhetorical figure of speech and thought, can offer fresh insights into classical reception studies by conceptualizing Greco-Roman antiquity as being both “inserted into” and “remaining apart” from the present.

In "Gestures: A Body of Work," first published this year, editors Alice Butler, Nell Osborne, and Hilary White compile a series of essays which explore embodied, affective, and political gesture in feminist art and writing. In her own contribution to the collection, Butler delves into the ways Woodman uses textiles in her photographs and their relationship to bodies and touch.

In 1999, The Ohio Review—a long-running literary journal published by the English Department at Ohio University—included a portfolio of thirteen photographs and an accompanying essay by George Woodman, appearing among pages of poetry, prose and fiction.

Francesca Woodman’s eight unique artist books demonstrate the artist’s nuanced and sophisticated approach to narrative and sequencing. Don’t miss two opportunities in London to learn more about these remarkable works.

Published in association with Woodman's 2022 exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery New York, this vibrant catalogue includes a new essay by Amy Sherlock, which, together with installation views and details of thirteen works from this formative period, enlarge an understanding of Woodman's process and practice.

Read Karen Chernick's review in "The Brooklyn Rail" on "Francesca Woodman: The Artist's Books" published by MACK.

‍Please join us for a conversation on Francesca Woodman with Collier Schorr, Justine Kurland, Moyra Davey and Drew Sawyer to celebrate the launch of "Francesca Woodman: The Artist’s Books.”

"Francesca Woodman: The Artist’s Books" collects for the first time every page of all eight of Francesca Woodman’s unique artist’s books in one comprehensive volume, including two newly discovered books which have never before been seen alongside better-known titles such as "Some Disordered Interior Geometries."

Francesca Woodman was a frequent visitor to the Maldoror bookshop during the year she spent studying in Rome. In the hours she spent rooting through the stacks there, she began to collect old notebooks filled with elaborate handwriting exercises and objective mathematical lessons, all in Italian.

The catalogue for "Pattern, Crime & Decoration"—a two-part exhibition at MAMCO, Geneva and Le Consortium, Dijon —focuses on the work of artists associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement in the US. It includes paintings by George Woodman and wall-based ceramic sculptures by Betty Woodman.