the Victoria Woodman School of Photography

These pictures seem to belong to the Francesca Woodman school of taking pictures of people in abandoned buildings. I have never understood this sort of thing, it feels mannered and posed. Taking pictures in abandoned buildings seems like a cheap way to create visual interest/texture. It's easier to find an abandoned building than something really, really interesting. Could someone explain the appeal of this mode of photography to me? Are abandoned buildings some kind of metaphor for human experience, memory, the mind? I've seen a lot of this, especially from people studying photography at colleges in mostlly rural environments (like Iowa).

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