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Jul 16, 2015 · Sophie Calle makes portraits of herself and strangers through investigative methods including surveillance, interviews, photography, and text. In Suite Vénitienne (Siglio Press, 2015) Calle follows an acquaintance, Henri B., through Venice for two weeks. Calle’s route includes systematic trailing and sporadic tracking of strangers with whom ...
Henri B.’s agency is lost in Suite Vénitienne; he is an unknowing participant. Calle’s most controversial artwork The Address Book (1983) brought her into the spotlight of popular culture. Whilst walking through the streets of Paris Calle discovered a lost address book.
Apr 23, 2015 · Suite Vénitienne was the resulting book, first published in 1979 and re-released this month in collaboration with Siglio. Calle documents her attempts to follow her subject. She phoned hundreds of hotels, even visited the police station, to find out where he was staying, and persuaded a woman who lived opposite to let her photograph him from ...
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Jul 20, 2015 · Poet, artist, and editor Emmalea Russo reviews Sophie Calle's Suite Vénitienne (Siglio Press 2015) for Art Critical, and in so doing, reflects on the act of following: its tangential desires, preoccupations, and projections.
Mar 24, 2015 · Calle developed this sort of investigatory aesthetic with her first book “Suite Vénitienne” (Siglio: 96 pp., $34.95), which operates (on the surface, anyway) as something of a simple diary: The...
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May 1, 2017 · For a world of photography that professes to be interested in diversity and in exploring the role text can play for and with pictures, there were surprisingly little discussions of Sophie Calle’s work up until recently. Recognition of her achievements is now arriving, though.
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The next morning, armed with a camera and a blonde wig, she took the train to Venice, where she discovered where he was staying, then shadowed him, taking photographs where she could. Published as a book in 1980, the result, Suite Vénitienne, became Sophie Calle's best known work, presented in diary form with photographs opposite her text.
