CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/24/2018

BACK IN STOCK! Sophie Calle: The Address Book

"I found an address book on the Rue des Martyrs," Sophie Calle wrote in Libération on Tuesday, August 2, 1983. "I decided to photocopy the contents before sending it back anonymously to its owner, whose address is inscribed on the endpaper. I will contact the people whose names are noted down. I will tell them, 'I found an address book on the street by chance. Your number was in it. I'd like to meet you.' I'll ask them to tell me about the owner of the address book, whose name I'll only reveal in person, if they agree to meet me. Thus, I will get to know this man through his friends and acquaintances. I will try to discover who he is without ever meeting him, and I will try to produce a portrait of him over an undetermined length of time that will depend on the willingness of his friends to talk about him—and on the turns taken by the events. This project will be published daily in Libération. I have to turn my texts in three days before each publication. The man's name is Pierre D."