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PUBLISHER
Actes Sud

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 103 pgs / 90 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 61   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9782330000585 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CDN $67.50 GBP £44.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
WORLD excl UK FR BE CH

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Sophie Calle: Blind


Sophie Calle: BlindWith Blind, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle (born 1953) revisits three earlier works constructed around the idea of blindness. In “Les Aveugles” (“The Blind”), created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty; in 1991, in “La Couleur Aveugle” (“Blind Color”), she asked blind people about their imagination of perception and compared their descriptions to artists’ musings on the monochrome; “La Dernière Image” (“The Last Image”), produced in 2010 in Istanbul, involved questioning people who had lost their sight on the last image they could remember. By establishing a dialectic between the testimonies of several generations of blind people and Calle’s photographs based on these accounts, the artist offers readers a reflection on absence, on the loss of one sense and the compensation of another and on the notion of the visible and the invisible.

Featured image, from Sophie Calle's The Last Image series (2010), is reproduced from Blind. Of the series, Calle writes, "I met blind people whose loss of sight had been sudden. I asked them to describe to me the last thing I saw." The image is captioned, in traditional print and Braille, "There is no last image – my loss of eyesight was gradual – but there is an image that remains, the one that's missing: three children that I can't see, sitting side by side, facing me, on the living-room sofa, where you are now."

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

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Mary Kaye Schilling

Offer[s] reflections on absence, on the loss of one sense and its compensation by another, and on the idea of the visible and the invisible.

Sophie Calle: Blind

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

SOPHIE CALLE MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Sophie Calle: True Stories

SOPHIE CALLE: TRUE STORIES

Actes Sud

ISBN: 9782330182465
USD $22.00
| CAN $32 UK £ 18.5

Pub Date: 4/9/2024
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Sophie Calle: The Hotel

SOPHIE CALLE: THE HOTEL

Siglio

ISBN: 9781938221293
USD $39.95
| CAN $49.95 UK £ 31.99

Pub Date: 12/7/2021
Active | In stock


Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique

SOPHIE CALLE: RACHEL MONIQUE

Editions Xavier Barral

ISBN: 9782365111171
USD $75.00
| CAN $99

Pub Date: 4/25/2017
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Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne

SOPHIE CALLE: SUITE VéNITIENNE

Siglio

ISBN: 9781938221095
USD $34.95
| CAN $45.95 UK £ 30

Pub Date: 5/26/2015
Active | In stock


Sophie Calle: Voir la mer

SOPHIE CALLE: VOIR LA MER

Actes Sud

ISBN: 9782330016166
USD $35.00
| CAN $47.5 UK £ 29

Pub Date: 2/28/2014
Active | Out of stock


Sophie Calle: The Address Book

SOPHIE CALLE: THE ADDRESS BOOK

Siglio

ISBN: 9780979956294
USD $29.95
| CAN $39.95 UK £ 27

Pub Date: 9/30/2012
Active | In stock


Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself

SOPHIE CALLE: TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

Dis Voir/Actes Sud

ISBN: 9782742768936
USD $125.00
| CAN $170 UK £ 105

Pub Date: 12/15/2007
Active | In stock