Throughout her career, the photographer and installation artist Sophie Calle has been creating tableaux that recreate her personal journeys. Projects from the past 10 years are explored in this magnificently illustrated volume. Following on the heels of Calle's highly acclaimed Did You See Me? this new book offers numerous images of Calle's most recent works. Among the projects included are "The Phone Booth, Garigiliano Bridge," which involved a public phone that Calle called at random to initiate conversations with ...
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Throughout her career, the photographer and installation artist Sophie Calle has been creating tableaux that recreate her personal journeys. Projects from the past 10 years are explored in this magnificently illustrated volume. Following on the heels of Calle's highly acclaimed Did You See Me? this new book offers numerous images of Calle's most recent works. Among the projects included are "The Phone Booth, Garigiliano Bridge," which involved a public phone that Calle called at random to initiate conversations with strangers; "Take Care of Yourself," which documents the interpretations of more than 100 women of a breakup note Calle received from a former lover; "The North Pole," a touching tribute to the artist's mother that imagines her realizing a lifelong dream; and the latest iteration of "What do You See," which was created in response to one of the most brazen art heists of all time, at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Many ongoing series are also illustrated here, including "Unfinished," "Herein Lie Secrets," and "Photos without Stories." Calle's many fans will discover how the artist continues to examine the boundaries of public and private life in ways that surprise, engage, and inspire.
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VG. Pictorial boards with metal trim. 1 volume (unpaged): illustrations (chiefly color). Published by arrangement with Editions Xavier Barral, Paris. / Original title: Ainsi de Suite. / Translated from the French. / Includes bibliographical references. As multi-faceted as the artist herself, this stunningly illustrated book on Sophie Calle's recent installations displays her genius for entwining personal experience with universal truth. Throughout her career, the photographer and installation artist Sophie Calle has been creating tableaux that recreate her personal journeys. Projects from the past 10 years are explored in this magnificently illustrated volume. Following on the heels of Calle's highly acclaimed Did You See Me? this new book offers numerous images of Calle's most recent works. Among the projects included are "The Phone Booth, Garigiliano Bridge, " which involved a public phone that Calle called at random to initiate conversations with strangers; "Take Care of Yourself, " which documents the interpretations of more than 100 women of a breakup note Calle received from a former lover; "The North Pole, " a touching tribute to the artist's mother that imagines her realizing a lifelong dream; and the latest iteration of "What do You See, " which was created in response to one of the most brazen art heists of all time, at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Many ongoing series are also illustrated here, including "Unfinished, " "Herein Lie Secrets, " and "Photos without Stories." Calle's many fans will discover how the artist continues to examine the boundaries of public and private life in ways that surprise, engage, and inspire. Contents: Looking and looking back / interview with Marie Desplechin--Unfinished: Unfinished (1988-2003); Suicide (2014); Secrets (2014); Collateral damage. Targets (1990-2003)--For the last and first time: The last image (2010); Voir la mer (2011); What do you see? (2013); Purloined (1994-2013)--Take care of yourself: Take care of yourself, Venice and writing / interview with Marie Desplechin; Take care of yourself (2004-2007)--Frank Gehry: In memory of Frank Gehry's Flowers (2014); The phone booth (2006-2012)--Performances: Performances: striptease, telephone and other interventions in public places / interview with Marie Desplechin; Transport-amoureux (2007); Now what? (1998-2001); Unsold (2014); Where could you take me? (2014); Liberté surveillée (2014); Here lie secrets (2014); Room 20 (2013)--Silent photos: Photos without stories (1979-2013); Collateral damage. Enemy statues (2001)--Autobiographies: Silence (2012); Today my mother died (2013); Dead in a good mood (2013); Obituary (2012); The giraffe (2012); Renée de face (2010); The hairdryer (2014); Morning (2016)--Where and when: Where and when, Berck (2004-2008); Where and when, Lourdes (2005-2008); Where and when, nowhere (2008-2012)--Rachel Monique: Rachel Monique, of love, celebrations and cemeteries / interview with Marie Desplechin; Rachel Monique (2007-2014); North Pole (2009)--Because: Appendixes.
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