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Blind / Sophie Calle
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"First published in English in 2011 by Actes Sud ... 5000 copies of this book have been printed in English. A limited English edition of 20 copies, numbered I to XX, are signed by the artist and accompanied by a photograph. Another limited English edition of 20 copies, numbered 1 to 20, and signed by the artist have also been printed. These copies are marked HC "hors commerece) and accompanied by a photograph ... Translated from the French by Charles Penwarden. Translated into braille by Braille-Tech"--Colophon
"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 Derniere 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"--Amazon