Paris, france, 1953 uses the mediums of photography, video, film, books, text, and performance to pursue her sociological and autobiographical investigations. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. Macel, christine, bois, yvealain, rolin, olivier on. Recently she has had solo exhibitions at such places as. Sophie calles the address book, an excerpt the new yorker. Calles route includes systematic trailing and sporadic tracking of strangers with whom. Variously described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director, and even a detective, she has developed a practice that is instantly recognizable for its distinct narrative elements and frequent combination of images with text. A controversial figure as well as one of frances leading conceptual artists, sophie calle explores her own psychological and emotional terrain in multimedia works, probing ideas of control, freedom, gender, intimacy, and distance in human relationships. Sophie calle s work take care of yourself is an example of the use of relay text that works with images to allow a fuller understanding by the viewer and the possibility of various interpretations, and an example of a postmodernist approach to art. Sophie calle born in 1953, sophie calle is an influential, contemporary, conceptual artist. Rachel, monique, sophie calles installation at the episcopal church of the heavenly rest, examines her mothers life and death through photographs, diary entries and. Sophie calle born 9th october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist.
My all finds the artist experimenting with yet another mediumsthe postcard set. Sophie calle has filled the french pavilion of the venice biennale with a praised exhibition about her emailed dumping letter. I read an earlier book by the artist sophie calle earlier this year and was underwhelmed by the writing. Using photography, installation, text and film, she constructs narratives that oscillate between reality and invention.
Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Sophie calle is a french artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. Often controversial, calles projects explore issues of voyeurism. By sophie calle first published in french in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and since republished and enhanced, true stories returns for the fifth time, gathering a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by acclaimed french artist sophie calle, this time with four new tales. Sophie calle, louise lawler, richard misrach, diane neumaier, richard ross, thomas struth. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individualsin essence, following him through. Her playful lifeasart work doesnt stop with magazine photo shoots. In 1981, calle took a job as a chambermaid at a venice hotel and secretly photographed the rooms in the absence of the guests.
Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. Books coming through the glass window or store front. Her work often incorporates elements of voyeurism, surveillance, and personal narrative to explore the nature of love, intimacy, violence and death. Sophie calle calle, sophie used books, rare books and new books. Sophie calle was born into an intellectual and creative household in 1953 paris, where she experienced an unconventional childhood. Calles projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this bookpart. Calles work springs up around the association of an image and a narrative around a game or autobiographical ritual, which strives to summon up the angst of absence while. Sophie calle true stories by sophie calle goodreads. Calles work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo. Part visual memoir and part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings, this is as close as calle has come to producing an autobiography.
Sophie calle investigates the distance between us in. Sophie calle is an internationally recognized french artist whose work incorporates photography, performance, and writing. The same could be said of facebook or twitter, where the public display of our address books, our diaries, our relationships manipulated to. This book, however, is a master class in small personal. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Sophie calle is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist.
Sophie calle makes portraits of herself and strangers through investigative methods including surveillance, interviews, photography, and text. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. Working across photography, film, and text, her oftcontroversial projects involve thorough documentation of other peoples lives and her interactions with them, as seen in her work suite venitienne 1980. Sophie calle has 50 books on goodreads with 8121 ratings. Sophie calle in her home studio in the paris suburb of malakoff. Sophie calle the address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. True stories by sophie calle and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Women walk the city in paris, new york, tokyo, venice and london. Over the past 30 years, artist sophie calle born 1953 has orchestrated small moments of life as art, each time establishing a game, then setting its rules for herself and for others. In many situations she does not operate a camera to capture her photographic images and may not be the actual writer of the associated text. For more than 30 years now, sophie calle has engaged in art as provocation.
This comprehensive retrospective of sophie calle not only celebrates the breadth of her iconoclastic work but also leads to a deeper understanding of her unique artistic vision. Sophie calle is a contemporary french conceptual artist known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. The work of conceptual artist sophie calle embraces numerous media. In les aveugles the blind, created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty. In 2010 she received the hasselblad foundation award. Sophie calle is an interesting and unusual photojournalist. Throughout her career, the photographer and installation artist sophie calle has been creating tableaux that recreate her personal journeys. The fertile mind of sophie calle the new york times. The fifth edition of true stories, featuring four new tales. Her work has been exhibited and honoured internationally. Taking stock of her entire oeuvre, this set of postcards functions as a beautiful portfolio of calles work, as well as a new investigation of it, in.