As there are many pieces by Francesca Woodman titled Untitled, which depict her naked, we have to identify this particular photo by its size – huge.

This piece, unlike most of Woodman’s others, is massive standing at six feet tall and three feet wide. This is very different from her other works, which generally maxed at 20 x 25 cm. Woodman generally preferred a more intimate feel, but this piece was made for a installation that she never finished, called the “Temple Project.” It was supposed to be part of an installation for the Alternative Museum in New York City but Woodman committed suicide before it was ever finished. This work, which is uhhmazing was just a study, too. It’s too sad to imagine the kinds of work she would have put out, had she lived. Strangely enough, it’s believed that she killed herself in part because her work wasn’t getting any traction. Apparently, she never learned the saying, "Patience is a virtue." She was more of a “Time is money” kind of girl, I guess.

Woodman’s approach to her work is decidedly feminist AF. Women during this time were “reclaiming their bodies and, by extension, their identities as subject matter,” but none as well as Francesca Woodman. Woodman somehow made the fact that she was exposing all of her lady parts not the main point of the work. It’s a lot more eerie and haunting than it is sexy… unless you’re into that sort of thing.

This photo, which was taken the year before her death, is rare because towards the end of her life Woodman stopped using her own body as a subject matter. People have linked the possibility that she ran out of ways to photograph herself with her suicide, but that seems highly reductive and ignores the fact that she was a creative genius.