1st Edition
Space, Place and Hybridity in Francesca Woodman’s Photography
By Vanessa Longden
Copyright 2026
176 Pages
2 Color & 19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
2 Color & 19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Offering readers a nuanced perception of Francesca Woodman’s work while challenging long-held psycho-biographical notions about her identity, this book provides an alternative critical enquiry that foregrounds lived experience, materiality and gender.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the study examines the complex relationship between the body and place in Woodman’s self-representational... Read more
Introduction: Where is Francesca Woodman? 1. Disrupting Domestic Space: Dust, Deterioration and the Everyday 2. Adjudicating Presence: Trace and the (Sub)urban Image 3. Among Woods and Water: The Natural Imaginar Conclusion: Touching Photographs
Biography
Vanessa Longden obtained her doctorate in the History and Theory of Photography at Durham University. She is the recipient of Leverhulme Trust funding and has published widely on bodies, identities and the notion of place in photography. She works at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where she specialises in Practice Research. Space, Place and Hybridity in Francesca Woodman’s Photography is her first academic monograph.
