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PHOTOGRAPHER

Francesca Woodman

1958 - 1981

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Francesca Stern Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show women, naked or clothed, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. Her work continues to be the subject of much positive critical attention, years after her death at the age of 22, in 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesca Woodman has received more than 849,916 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Francesca Woodman is the 108th most popular photographer (down from 83rd in 2019), the 7,598th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,920th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Photographer.

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  • 850k

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  • 44.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Francesca Woodman ranks 108 out of 105. Before her are Alvin Langdon Coburn, Ilse Bing, Sally Mann, Helen Levitt, Annemarie Heinrich, and Bert Stern. After her are Mick Rock, Karl Struss, Rineke Dijkstra, Sanja Iveković, Mary Ellen Mark, and David LaChapelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Francesca Woodman ranks 266. Before her are Amy Pascal, Heinz Hermann, John Mahama, Cazuza, Alexander Nevzorov, and Mike Mills. After her are Wafa Sultan, Chuck Russell, Pedro Costa, Babyface, Michael Flynn, and Lex Luger. Among people deceased in 1981, Francesca Woodman ranks 194. Before her are Beatrice Tinsley, Antonio Suárez, Paul Bontemps, Richard Boone, Ariel Durant, and Antero Kivi. After her are Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, Karl Struss, Roy Cochran, Guy Butler, and Carleton S. Coon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Francesca Woodman ranks 7,598 out of 18,182. Before her are William M. Evarts (1818), Maurice Greene (1974), Charles Dana Gibson (1867), Glynn Turman (1947), Bart D. Ehrman (1955), and Tony Trabert (1930). After her are R. B. Kitaj (1932), Phil Harris (1904), Leigh Taylor-Young (1945), Jon Avnet (1949), Pinto Colvig (1892), and David Malpass (1956).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Francesca Woodman ranks 32. Before her are F. Holland Day (1864), William P. Gottlieb (1917), Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882), Sally Mann (1951), Helen Levitt (1913), and Bert Stern (1929). After her are Karl Struss (1886), Mary Ellen Mark (1940), David LaChapelle (1963), Sean Flynn (1941), Toni Frissell (1907), and Clarence Hudson White (1871).

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