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Backgrounds colorado, to well-known artists George Woodman and Betty Woodman (Abrahams).[3][6] Her older brother Charles later became an associate professor of electronic art.[7] Her mother is Jewish and her father is from a Protestant background.Woodman attended public school in Boulder, Colorado, between 1963 and 1971 except for second grade, which she attended in Italy. She began high school in 1972 at the private Massachusetts boarding school Abbot Academy, where she began to develop her photographic skills and became interested in the art form. Abbot Academy merged with Phillips Academy in 1973; Woodman graduated from the public Boulder High School in 1975. Through 1975, she spent summers with her family in Italy.[3](p. 154)[6] She spent her time in Italy in the Florentine countryside, where she lived on an old farm with her parents.[citation needed]Beginning in 1975, Woodman attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island. She studied in Rome between 1977 and 1978 in a RISD honors program. As she spoke fluent Italian, she was able to befriend Italian intellectuals and artists.[3](pp. 26–30,154) She went back to Rhode Island in late 1978 to graduate from Woodman moved to New York City in 1979. After spending the summer of 1979 in Stanwood, Seattle whilst visiting her boyfriend at Pilchuck Glass School, she returned to New York "to make a career in photography." She sent portfolios of her work to fashion photographers, but "her solicitations did not lead anywhere."[3](p. 155) In the summer of 1980 she was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.In late 1980 Woodman became depressed due to the failure of her work to attract attention and to a broken relationship.[9] She survived a suicide attempt, after which she lived with her parents in Manhattan.[10] On January 19, 1981, she committed suicide by jumping out a loft window in New York.[3](p. 155)[6] An acquaintance wrote, "things had been bad, there had been therapy, things had gotten better, guard had been let down."[11] Her father has suggested that Woodman's suicide was related to an unsuccessful application for funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.[12]Although Woodman used different cameras and film formats during her career, most of her photographs were taken with medium format cameras producing 2-1/4 by 2-1/4 inch (5.7 by 5.7 cm) square negatives.[4](p. 9)[5](p. 179) Woodman created at least 10,000 negatives, which her parents now keep.[13] Woodman's estate, which is managed by Woodman's parents and represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York,[14] consists of over 800 prints,[6] of which only around 120 images had been published or exhibited as of 2006.[4](p. 6) Most of Woodman's prints are 8 by 10 inches (20 by 25 cm) or smaller, which "works to produce an intimate experience between viewer and photograph"Many of Woodman's images are untitled and are known only by a location and date. The table below contains information on some of Woodman's most famous photographs. For each photograph, the location, the date, the title and a brief description are given (since multiple images may share the same location, date, and title, and a single image may be assigned multiple locations, dates and titles). The columns on the right contain links to up to four reproductions of the photograph found on the Web, and page numbers of reproductions in five major books.[citation needed]t RISD, Woodman borrowed a video camera and VTR[4](p. 27) and created videotapes related to her photographs in which she "methodically whitewashes her own naked body, for instance, or compares her torso to images of classical statuary."[28] Some of these videos were displayed at the Helsinki City Art Museum in Finland and the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York in 2004;[29] the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami in 2005;[28] the Tate Modern in London in 2007-2008;[30] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2011 (in an exhibition which will travel to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2012).[5] In the 2011-2012 exhibitions, the selected video works, each 23 seconds to 3 minutes 15 seconds in length,
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Backgrounds colorado, to well-known artists George Woodman and Betty Woodman (Abrahams).[3][6] Her older brother Charles later became an associate professor of electronic art.[7] Her mother is Jewish and her father is from a Protestant background.Woodman attended public school in Boulder, Colorado, between 1963 and 1971 except for second grade, which she attended in Italy. She began high school in 1972 at the private Massachusetts boarding school Abbot Academy, where she began to develop her photographic skills and became interested in the art form. Abbot Academy merged with Phillips Academy in 1973; Woodman graduated from the public Boulder High School in 1975. Through 1975, she spent summers with her family in Italy.[3](p. 154)[6] She spent her time in Italy in the Florentine countryside, where she lived on an old farm with her parents.[citation needed]Beginning in 1975, Woodman attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island. She studied in Rome between 1977 and 1978 in a RISD honors program. As she spoke fluent Italian, she was able to befriend Italian intellectuals and artists.[3](pp. 26–30,154) She went back to Rhode Island in late 1978 to graduate from Woodman moved to New York City in 1979. After spending the summer of 1979 in Stanwood, Seattle whilst visiting her boyfriend at Pilchuck Glass School, she returned to New York "to make a career in photography." She sent portfolios of her work to fashion photographers, but "her solicitations did not lead anywhere."[3](p. 155) In the summer of 1980 she was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.In late 1980 Woodman became depressed due to the failure of her work to attract attention and to a broken relationship.[9] She survived a suicide attempt, after which she lived with her parents in Manhattan.[10] On January 19, 1981, she committed suicide by jumping out a loft window in New York.[3](p. 155)[6] An acquaintance wrote, "things had been bad, there had been therapy, things had gotten better, guard had been let down."[11] Her father has suggested that Woodman's suicide was related to an unsuccessful application for funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.[12]Although Woodman used different cameras and film formats during her career, most of her photographs were taken with medium format cameras producing 2-1/4 by 2-1/4 inch (5.7 by 5.7 cm) square negatives.[4](p. 9)[5](p. 179) Woodman created at least 10,000 negatives, which her parents now keep.[13] Woodman's estate, which is managed by Woodman's parents and represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York,[14] consists of over 800 prints,[6] of which only around 120 images had been published or exhibited as of 2006.[4](p. 6) Most of Woodman's prints are 8 by 10 inches (20 by 25 cm) or smaller, which "works to produce an intimate experience between viewer and photograph"Many of Woodman's images are untitled and are known only by a location and date. The table below contains information on some of Woodman's most famous photographs. For each photograph, the location, the date, the title and a brief description are given (since multiple images may share the same location, date, and title, and a single image may be assigned multiple locations, dates and titles). The columns on the right contain links to up to four reproductions of the photograph found on the Web, and page numbers of reproductions in five major books.[citation needed]t RISD, Woodman borrowed a video camera and VTR[4](p. 27) and created videotapes related to her photographs in which she "methodically whitewashes her own naked body, for instance, or compares her torso to images of classical statuary."[28] Some of these videos were displayed at the Helsinki City Art Museum in Finland and the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York in 2004;[29] the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami in 2005;[28] the Tate Modern in London in 2007-2008;[30] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2011 (in an exhibition which will travel to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2012).[5] In the 2011-2012 exhibitions, the selected video works, each 23 seconds to 3 minutes 15 seconds in length,
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