All About Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle: True Stories

Fifth Edition

Published by Actes Sud.

This expanded edition of Calle's 1994 classic features four new tales

PUBLISHER
Actes Sud

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 4 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs / 51 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/23/2016
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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 73   

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Sophie Calle: My All

Published by Actes Sud.

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. Calle’s 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 creating a relationship to others that is controlled by the artist,” as curator and art critic Christine Macel puts it. Calle has carried out and documented these melancholy games in books, photographs, videos, films and performances. Sophie Calle: My All finds the artist experimenting with yet another mediums—the postcard set. Taking stock of her entire oeuvre, this set of postcards functions as a beautiful portfolio of Calle’s work, as well as a new investigation of it, in an appropriately nomadic format.

PUBLISHER
Actes Sud

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 4 x 6 in. / 50 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/22/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 139   

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ISBN 9782330053697 SDNR50
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Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique

Published by Editions Xavier Barral.
Text by Sophie Calle, Monique Szyndler.

The haunting story of Sophie Calle’s mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs

PUBLISHER
Editions Xavier Barral

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 38 color / 57 bw.

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Pub Date 4/25/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 50   

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ISBN 9782365111171 TRADE
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Sophie Calle: Double Game

Published by Violette Editions.
With the participation of Paul Auster.

Double Game was the first major publication in English by French artist Sophie Calle (born 1953), and is her bestselling title to date. It takes the form of a double jeu or double game between the work of Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. The story begins with Maria, a fictional character in Paul Auster’s novel, Leviathan. Most of the fictional Maria’s works are, in fact, based on those of the real-life Sophie Calle. The first section of Double Game features Calle’s representations of the fictional Maria’s works. We see the pieces both as they’re described in their fictional context and as Calle’s own interpretation of the descriptions from Paul Auster’s novel. In the second section, the story delves deeper into Calle’s world, with a sequence of Calle’s seminal narrative and abstract works in texts and images that were in turn appropriated by the fictional Maria in Leviathan. The third section of Double Game switches the focus back to Maria’s original creator, Paul Auster, who takes Calle as his subject, formulating for her the Gotham Handbook, which offers personalized instructions for the artist on “How to Improve Life in New York City.” This is the British edition of the 2007 reprint.

PUBLISHER
Violette Editions

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 296 pgs / 85 color / 373 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2013
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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 74   

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Sophie Calle: The Address Book

Published by Siglio.

The Address Book, a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individuals--in essence, following him through the map of his acquaintances. Originally published as a serial in the newspaper Libération over the course of one month, her incisive written accounts with friends, family and colleagues, juxtaposed with photographs, yield vivid subjective impressions of the address book's owner, Pierre D., while also suggesting ever more complicated stories as information is parsed and withheld by the people she encounters. Collaged through a multitude of details--from the banal to the luminous, this fragile and strangely intimate portrait of Pierre D. is a prism through which to see the desire for, and the elusivity of, knowledge. Upon learning of this work and its publication in the newspaper, Pierre D. expressed his anger, and Calle agreed not to republish the work until after his death. Until then, The Address Book had only been described in English--as the work of the character Maria Turner, whom Paul Auster based on Calle in his novel Leviathan; and in Double Game, Calle's monograph which converses with Auster's novel. This is the first trade publication in English of The Address Book (Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles released a suite of lithographs modeled on the original tabloid pages from Libération in an edition of 24). The book has the physical weight and feel of an actual address book with a new design of text and images which allow the story to unfold and be savored by the reader.

PUBLISHER
Siglio

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 104 pgs / 2 color / 26 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2012
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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 60   

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ISBN 9780979956294 TRADE
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Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne

Published by Siglio.

Calle’s first artist’s book documents her pursuit of one man through the streets of Venice

PUBLISHER
Siglio

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5.5 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 4 color / 56 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/26/2015
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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 45   

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Sophie Calle: Detachment

Published by Actes Sud.
Text by Sophie Calle.

Inhabitants of the former East Berlin are asked for their reactions to the disappearance of symbols, monuments and commemorative plaques

PUBLISHER
Actes Sud

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 4 x 7.5 in. / 72 pgs / 22 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2013
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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 100   

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ISBN 9782330019808 TRADE
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Sophie Calle: Voir la mer

Published by Actes Sud.

For Voir la mer, Sophie Calle invited inhabitants of Istanbul, who often originated from central Turkey, to see the sea for the first time. “I took 15 people of all ages, from kids to one man in his 80s … once we were safely by the sea, I instructed them to take away their hands and look at it. Then, when they were ready--for some it was five minutes and for others 15--they had to turn to me and let me look at those eyes that had just seen the sea.” The project was eventually composed of 14 five-minute videos, made for Calle by Caroline Champetier. Each person is filmed from behind, eventually turning to face the camera, revealing the emotions the experience has evoked. This charming catalogue features Calle’s evocative photographs of these subjects.

PUBLISHER
Actes Sud

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.25 x 5.5 in. / 64 pgs / 30 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/28/2014
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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 100   

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ISBN 9782330016166 TRADE
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Sophie Calle: Blind

Published by Actes Sud.

With 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.

PUBLISHER
Actes Sud

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

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/30/2012
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Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 61   

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ISBN 9782330000585 TRADE
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Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself

Published by Dis Voir/Actes Sud.
Text by Sophie Calle.

One hundred and seven women respond to Sophie Calle’s "breakup” email through the lens of their respective professions

PUBLISHER
Dis Voir/Actes Sud

BOOK FORMAT
Hardback, 8.25 x 12 in. / 424 pgs / 108 color / DVD (PAL).

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 12/15/2007
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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 61   

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ISBN 9782742768936 TRADE
List Price: $125.00 CAD $170.00 GBP £105.00

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