From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 08/31/02-06:09:41 AM Z
Yes, I've seen these. Absolutely stunning, masterful and very understated. Her
partner is a painter/sculptor (from memory). These were published in either
American Photographer or Camera Arts.
I was (and still am) uncomfortable with the whole Francesca Woodman phenomenon,
but because her (posthumous) celebrity status seemed unquestioned I assumed I was
out of sync. At least until I got to reading A.D. Coleman, he clearly thought the
whole scenario was fraudulent.
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Ralph Gibson (I'm not nominating him you
understand, just surprised). His following is very large and robust. aka sales are
good...
-Darryl
Jack Fulton wrote:
> Verushka is more real to me. A person self made in the world of the
> falsely made. Her last work w/that German mate of hers, where he or they
> painted her to look just like the background is, again, for me, idea
> oriented and the nude being covered by the paint is an illusionary
> palimpsest. that work is clever and like the tabula rasa, clean and
> pristine.
> Howz dat Joe?
>
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