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Originally published as a serial in the daily newspaper ‘Liberation, ’ August 2 - September 4, 1983. In 2009 Gemini G.E.L. produced a limited edition artist book of twenty-eight digital…
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A career-spanning survey of the adored French artist whose conceptual works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and the unsaid
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Sophie Calle
The latest edition of Sophie Calle's classic artist's book features three new tales
First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since, this new edition of True Stories returns…
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Originally published in French by Actes Sud in 1998. Originally published in English by Violette Editions, London in the book Double Game by Sophie Calle, 1999 –Colophon.
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The perfect primer on acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle, this book reproduces images from her most important works.
Calle's seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in English
In one of Sophie Calle's first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in…
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I received an email telling me it was over. I didn’t know how to respond. It was as if it wasn’t meant for me. It ended with the words: Take…
A stunning artist's book containing loose photographs hidden between pages of text that tell the story of each image
Words have always been central to the practice of French artist…
This expanded edition of Sophie Calle’s 1994 classic features four new tales.
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The haunting story of Sophie Calle’s mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs.
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Originally published in 1983 in French under the same title by aEditions de l'aEtoile, Paris. Published in English in 1988 by Bay Press, Seattle, and in 1999 by Violette Editions…
The exhibition of the same name was presented at the Mejan Chapel in Arles during summer 2012, then at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, 8 September to 27 October 2012…
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Sophie Calle,Jean-Paul Demoule
Between 1978 and 1981, Sophie Calle went on a clandestine exploration of the then abandoned Hotel du Palais d'Orsay. She selected room 501 as her home and without any pre-established…
Sophie Sinclair
A newly married gay couple try to adopt a baby.
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Sophie Haydon
An art restorer looking for a home. A man struggling to cope after the death of his wife. And a painting which brings them together but which reveals a mysterious…
Marie Called Sophie Cottin
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Sonja Longolius
Authors not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their author personae. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja Longolius develops…
Holly Webb
Ava’s new kitten, Tiger, may be small but he has a big personality and sense of adventure. As Tiger gets up to various escapades, Ava finds herself coming to the…
Sophie Foster, PH D
The impossible act of wholly loving a child with the expectation of letting them go, begins the gripping chronicle of a foster parents journey through the system, intermingling a once…
Philosophy has never been an obvious life choice, especially in the absence of apparent practical usefulness. The intellectual effort and moral discipline it exacts appeared uninviting from the outside. However…
The first contemporary survey of postwar British women sculptors from modernism to the YBA’s
This publication focuses on postwar British women sculptors, including Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Barbara Hepworth, Kim…
This monograph is unusual in bringing the voices from a wide range of people - writers, curators, gallerists, collectors, colleagues, art critics - who have given way to and influenced…