Sophie Calle. Suite Vénitienne. Jean Baudrillard. Please Follow Me.
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 21 x 18 cm.
  • 90 pp.
  • edition size unkown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0941920097

Sophie Calle. Suite Vénitienne. Jean Baudrillard. Please Follow Me.

Sophie Calle, Jean Baudrillard

Sophie Calle. Suite Vénitienne. Jean Baudrillard. Please Follow Me.

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Artist's book composed of texts and photographs by Sophie Calle with afterward by Jean Baudrillard. "For months I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following them, not because they particularly interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, then finally lost sight of them and forgot them. At the end of January 1989, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom I lost sight of a few minutes later in a crowd. That very evening, quite by chance, he was introduced to me at an opening. During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice..." -- Calle's text from book's back cover. "To follow the other is to take charge of his itinerary; it is to watch over his life without him knowing it; it is to relieve him of that existential burden, the responsibility for his own life. Simultaneously, she who follows is herself relieved of responsibility for her own life as she follows blindly in the footsteps of the other. A wonderful reciprocity exists in the cancellation of each existence, in the cancellation of each subject's tenuous position as a subject. Following the other, one replaces him, exchanges lives, passions, wills, transforms oneself in the other's stead." -- Jean Baudrillard from book's back cover. English edition of book originally published in 1983 by Editions de L'Etoile.

Seattle, WA: Bay Press,
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