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"), sh[...]

Sophie Calle: The Reader provides a critical tool for navigating Sophie Calle's image and text work from 1979 to the present, bringing together interviews with the artists, critical commentaries by a range of international critics, curators, artists and art historians and an index summarizing recurr[...]

"Detachment "is based on the same principle as Sophie Calle's earlier work "Fantomes and Souvenirs," exploring once again the topic of artefacts vanished from public view and how those familiar with these objects felt about them. In this volume, Calle interviews inhabitants of the former East Berlin[...]

This expanded edition of Calle's 1994 classic features four new talesFirst 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 Fre[...]

The haunting story of Sophie Calle's mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs
"She was called successively Rachel, Monique, Szyndler, Calle, Pagliero, Gonthier, Sindler," reads the first lines of Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique, embroidered on the cover. "My mother liked people to [...]

This comprehensive retrospective of artist Sophie Calle not only celebrates the breadth and intelligence of her iconoclastic work but also leads to a deeper understanding of her unique artistic vision.

The work of conceptual artist Sophie Calle embraces numerous media: photography, s[...]

Authors do not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their authorial persona. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja Longolius develops a concept of "performative authorship" by examining different strategies of becomi[...]