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Siglio
October 2012
On Sale: September 30, 2012
Featuring: Pierre D.
104 pages
ISBN: 0979956293
EAN: 9780979956294
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Fiction Family Life
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 Paris, 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
Libération 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, Pierre D., while
also suggesting ever more complicated stories as information
is parsed and withheld by the people she encounters. Collaged through a multitude of details--from the banal to
the luminous, this fragile and strangely intimate portrait
of Pierre 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, Pierre 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
Paul 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 Libération 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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