Life in Motion Egon Schiele/ Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman Eel Series, Venice, Italy 1978
‘Standing male figure (self-portrait)' by Egon Schiele from1914
19 January 1981, a young female photographer fell angel-like from the loft window of a building on New York City's East Side. She fell several stories until she landed on the pavement below where she died on impact. The death of photographer Francesca Woodman, then just 22, perhaps felt inevitable, though perhaps we can only say that through the filter of speculative retrospect. Just
