True stories /
First published in French in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and since republished and enhanced, True Stories returns in a new edition, gathering a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle. Calle's projects have frequently drawn on...
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| Language: | English |
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[Arles, France] :
Actes Sud,
[2023]
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| Summary: | First published in French in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and since republished and enhanced, True Stories returns in a new edition, gathering a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle. Calle's projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this book--part visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings--is as close as she has come to producing an autobiography, albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary, as is characteristic of her work. The tales--never longer than a page--are by turns lighthearted, humorous, serious, dramatic or cruel. Each is accompanied by an image; each offers a fragment of life. The slim, portable volume is divided into sections: the first is composed of various reflections on objects such as a shoe, a postcard or "the breasts"; the second, "The Husband," of recollections of episodes from Calle's first marriage; and the third gathers a variety of autobiographical recollections. Calle herself is the author, narrator and protagonist of her stories and photography; her words are somber, chosen precisely and carefully. One of the 21st century's foremost artists, Calle here offers up her own story--childhood, marriage, sex, death--with brilliant humor, insight and pleasure. |
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| Physical Description: | 145 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9782330182465 2330182465 |