Siglio | ISBN:0979956293 | File Type: PDF, 104 pages | File size: 55.Mb | Oct. 31st, 2012
Artists: The Address Book The Address Book a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle s oeuvre lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction Having found a lost address book on the street in aris Calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individuals in essence following him through the map of his acquaintances Originally published as a serial in the newspaper Liberation over the course of one month her incisive written accounts with friends family and colleagues juxtaposed with photographs yield vivid subjective impressions of the address book s owner ierre D while also suggesting ever more complicated stories as information is parsed and withheld by the people she encounters Collaged through a mtitude of s from the banal to the luminous this fragile and strangely intimate portrait of ierre D is a prism through which to see the desire for and the elusivity of knowledge Upon learning of this work and its publication in the newspaper ierre D expressed his anger and Calle agreed not to republish the work until after his death Until then The Address Book had only been described in English as the work of the character Maria Turner whom a Auster based on Calle in his novel Leviathan and in Double Game Calle s monograph which converses with Auster s novel This is the first trade publication in English of The Address Book Gemini G E L in Los Angeles released a suite of lithographs modeled on the original tabloid pages from Liberation in an edition of 24 The book has the physical weight and feel of an actual address book with a new design of text and images which allow the story to unfold and be savored by the reader
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