• Suite Venitienne / Sophie Calle
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Suite Venitienne / Sophie Calle

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FA.B104.1601
Fine Art Collection
21 x 14 cm
2015
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle
black-and-white photographs, die cutting, maps, perfect bindings
Siglio
Blue hardcover perfect binding with die-cut cover. Published by Siglio, Los Angeles, 2015. After following strangers on the streets in Paris for months, photographing them and notating their movements, Sophie Calle ran into a man at an opening whom she had followed earlier that day. "During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice. I decided to follow him," she writes at the beginning of Suite Venitienne, her first artist's book and the crucible of her inimitable fusion of investigatory methods, fictional constructs, the plundering of real life and the composition of self. Over the course of almost two weeks in Venice, Calle notates, in time-stamped entries, her surveillance of Henri B., as well as her own emotions as she seeks, finds and follows him through the labyrinthine streets of Venice. Her investigation is both methodical (calling every hotel, visiting the police station) and arbitrary (sometimes following a stranger-a flower delivery boy, for instance-hoping someone might lead her to him). This Siglio reissue is a reprint of Suite Venitienne (first published in 1988 and long out of print). CBA has two copies.