Sophie Calle: Ma’s-tu vue / Did You See Me? (2003)

“The work of conceptual artist Sophie Calle embraces photography, storytelling, film, memoir as well as other media. Often controversial, Calle’s projects explore issues of voyeurism, intimacy, and identity as she secretly investigates, reconstructs and documents the lives of strangers–whether she’s inviting them to sleep in her bed, trailing them through a hotel, or following them through the city. Taking on multiple roles–detective, documentarian, behavioural scientist and diarist–Sophie Calle turns the interplay between life and art on its head.

The book presents Calle’s best-known works, including The Blind, No Sex Last Night, The Hotel, The Address Book and A Woman Vanishes, as well as lesser known and earlier projects that have largely escaped the public eye. This compendium of Calle’s photographs, diary excerpts and video stills also includes three critical essays and two interviews with the artist.”

First published in French by Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2003.

English edition
Publisher Prestel, 2003; Second edition, 2008
ISBN 3791330357, 9783791330358
443 pages
via Chloe

Review: Pescador (The Art Book Review, 2012).

Publisher
WorldCat

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