The Woodmans

Francesca Woodman:
Real things don't frighten me - just the ones in my mind do.

George Woodman:
I feel Francesca's photographs should be looked at for the photographs they are, and not looked at because they were made by a person with a, perhaps, unusual history.

Francesca Woodman:
[last journal entry] This action that I foresee has nothing to do with melodrama. It is that life, as lived by me now, is a series of exceptions. I was , or am, not unique - but special. This is why I was an artist. I was inventing a language for people to see the everyday things that I also see, and show them something different. Nothing to do with not being able 'to take it' in the big city, or with self-doubt or because my heart is gone. And not to teach people a lesson. Simply the other side.

Sloan Rankin:
There wasn't a place for her in New York for what she was doing, and how refined she was already as an artist. However, what she did was far ahead of the times. You take the Urban Outfitters catalog and start looking at how they photograph now, take a picture of Francesca's and put them next to each other; and you'll see that the industry has come around to her way of thinking.