Francesca Woodman's pictures are surreal-beauty, tragic and mystery all combined in each one. She was born into a family of artists in 1958 in Denver, Colorado and was destined for a short life. She made her first works at the tender age of 13, and continued studying photography at design school in Rhode Island and later Rome, Italy. She worked hard on the themes of surrealism and futurism which is clear in her photos.
It was during her year in Rome where she held her first one woman show to great success. She then moved back to America and settled into the creative hustle bustle of New York City, pushing her ambitions in photography even further. "Some Disordered Interior Geometries", the only one of her books to be published, came out in January 1981, at which date she tragically took her own life. Apparantly following the heartbreak of a failed relationship, she did so by jumping out of her NYC apartment. An abrupt and stale end to what became a legacy of beauty and surreal imagination. It could possibly even enhance the publics intrigue in the mystery of her work, like a lot of artists that die too young.
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