Woodman was an American photographer who can be recognized by her black and white self portraits and images of female models. She mainly photographed herself and other women nude and merging into their surroundings. With the subject's face usually obscured, Woodman used long exposures and motion blur to create a surreal, dreamlike photo. She worked with a medium format camera which is one of my favorite's to use also. Her work is still receiving worldwide attention even years after she committed suicide at the age of 22. Her works has a sense of loneliness to it, and its almost as if photo tells of a thought she never shared with anyone in her short lifetime. Most of her actual prints are of the smaller variety which creates a very intimate experience for the viewer.
I like the concept of having small prints that make some sort of different experience for the audience. Whenever I see trickery in old timey photos, I always seem to give more props to people who didn't have the technology we do today to complete the act.
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