Focusing on the later work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981); Claire Raymond takes up the question of the disintegrative condition of the art she produced in the last year of her life. Departing from the techniques of her earlier compositions; Woodman worked in the diazotype process for many of these late pieces; most importantly the monumental Blueprint for a Temple. Raymond shows that through her use of diazotype; a medium that breaks down when exposed to light; Woodman created art that is both supremely evocative aesthetically and inherently unstable physically. Woodman; Raymond contends; was imaginatively responding to the end of the durable image; a historical reality acknowledged in the way her work plays the ephemeral and evanescent against the monumental and enduring. Raymond focuses on the theoretical and the curatorial issues surrounding Woodmans diazotypes; a thematic and practical distress that haunts much of her later art; especially the artists book and photo series Some Disordered Interior Geometries and Portrait of a Reputation. Rather than conceiving of Woodman herself as fragile; an artist chronicling and seeming to yearn for her own disappearance; Raymond juxtaposes Woodmans career-spanning documentation of her own image against other post-war witnesses of trauma - an artist standing in the museum ruins where she emerges most distinctly as a figure of postmodernity.
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