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receives the Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography, New York 2017 ... Sophie Calle, Autobiographies (The Obituary), 2012
Sophie Calle: Because. This work is part of Calle’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between narrative, memory, and photography, and mixes humor and melancholy with her particular eye for irony. In each piece, a felt curtain embroidered with Calle’s writing conceals a hidden photograph behind it.
Artist: Sophie Calle (French, born Paris, 1953) Date: 1979. Medium: Gelatin silver prints. Dimensions: 12.6 x 18.4cm (4 15/16 x 7 1/4in.) Mat: 14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Gift of the artist and Olivier Renaud-Clement, in memory of Gilles Dusein, 2000. Accession Number: 2000.652a–f. Rights and ...
This week’s female iconoclast is Sophie Calle, the French artist known for her provocative, autobiographical work as a conceptual artist, photographer, movie director, and even detective. Blurring the boundaries between the private and the public, between reality and fiction, between art and life, Calle masterfully and unapologetically ...
Jan 16, 2020 · The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of Sophie Calle’s philosophy while specifically focusing on certain works, and examine the idea of expanded photography, i.e. photography combined with various other art forms. It will compare and contrast Calle with other practitioners and it will also look at ideas that Calle’s work, I would ...
Jul 4, 2011 · France’s most celebrated conceptual artist, Sophie Calle has been meticulously recording her exploits since 1979. Since then, a boundless sense of exploration and curiosity has driven her to follow strangers around Paris, secretly taking photographs of them; gaining employment as a chambermaid at a Venice hotel, taking pictures of their messied rooms and inviting people to sleep in her bed.
Using the look and language of the forensic report, Calle presents evidence of her quixotic pursuits of the ineffable and evanescent. While obviously indebted to the deadpan photo-text combinations of Conceptualism, her art is as purely French at its core as the novels of Marguerite Duras and the films of Alain Resnais-an intimate exploration of memory, desire, and obsessive longing.
