{"product_id":"sophie-calle-the-address-book","title":"Sophie Calle: The Address Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving found a lost address book on the street in Paris, artist Sophie Calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. She then began contacting the people—in essence, following him through the map of his family, friends, lovers, and acquaintances.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSophie Calle’s written accounts of these encounters—juxtaposed with her photographs—originally appeared as serial in the French newspaper \u003cem\u003eLibération\u003c\/em\u003e over the course of one month in 1983. Now, \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e, a key and controversial work in Calle’s oeuvre, is being published for the first time in its entirety in English as a beautiful trade edition artist’s book, designed in collaboration with the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e entries accumulate, so do the vivid impressions of its owner, Pierre D., while suggesting ever more complicated stories as information is gifted, parsed, and withheld. A multitude of details—from the seemingly banal to the potentially revelatory—are collaged into a fragile and strangely intimate portrait of Pierre D.; while Calle, over the course of her pursuit, also turns the interrogation on herself, her own fears, assumptions, and obsessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart conceptual art, part character study, part confession, part essay,  Sophie Calle’s \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is, above all, a prism through which desire and the elusory, persona and identity, the private and the public, knowledge and the unknown are refracted in luminous and provocative ways.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IPS\/DAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555639463993,"sku":"210000002829","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/annotation-2024-03-04-155211.jpg?v=1790279588","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/sophie-calle-the-address-book","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}