George Edgar Woodman (April 27, 1932 – March 23, 2017) was an American ceramicist, painter, and photographer.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Death
- 3 Photography
- 3.1 The Woodmans
- 3.2 Accidentally in Love (Talyton St George)
- 3.3 The Great Lakes Car Ferries
- 3.4 Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel
- 3.5 Stop Smoking: This Is How I Did It
- 3.6 Francesca Woodman's Notebook
- 3.7 The electric interurban railways in America
- 3.8 The Sweetest Thing: (Talyton St George) by Woodman, Cathy (2011)
- 3.9 George Woodman: Sensuality in a World of Reason - a Retrospective Exhibition - March 6-May 3, 1998
- 3.10 George Woodman Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Sensuality in a World of Reason: A Retrospective Exhibition
Biography
Woodman went to Harvard University and married Betty Woodman (nee Elizabeth Abrahams) in 1953.
After earning a master’s degree in painting at the University of New Mexico, he taught painting and art criticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder until 1996. The Woodmans moved to New York in 1980 and had a second home in Italy, where they spent their summers.
The Woodmans’ son, Charles, was born in 1955 and became Associate Professor of Electronic Art at the University of Cincinnati.
Francesca Woodman, Francesca’s daughter and photographer was she; Francesca was born in 1958. She committed suicide in 1981. Woodman selected some of his daughter’s journal entries for publication in the book Francesca Woodman edited by Chris Townsend (Phaidon, 2006).
Death
George Woodman died in his home in New York on March 23, 2017, aged 84.
Photography
Since the early 1980s, Woodman has concentrated on black-and-white photography. The photographs in a 1991 New York exhibition were described as having an “antique, romantic air”, with a “reliance on images from art history. “ In 1998, the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy, displayed 78 of Woodman’s “highly constructed” photographs that were “based on its own collection.”
The 1998 exhibition “Sensuality in a World of Reason” included multiple-exposure photographs with overlapping human figures, buildings, and sculptures. A 2002 exhibition in Chennai, India, which was entitled “Truths and Fictions,” included Woodman’s photographs of photographs. His large-format, black-and-white, still life camera obscura photographs were exhibited in 2004; they involved techniques such as collage-like arrangements, long exposures with movement of objects, and combinations of positive and negative images.
Last update 2021-08-06