Monday, December 1, 2008

Sophi Calle by Kaitlyn Ziegenhorn

Sophie Calle is a French artist born in 1953. She is a photographer, writer, conceptual artist and an installation artist. She plays with conepts such as fiction and reality, art and life, and private and public. Calle has been known for her detective-like ways of following strangers and documenting their private lives. Much of her work consists of photograph and text, some examples are below:



This is a quote I found on Wikipedia (I know it's not the best source but it does have truth to it from what I found on other sites). I thought this was interesting: "She (Calle) became so intrigued by following her unwitting subjects that she wanted to reverse the relationship, and become the subject herself. She asked her mother to hire a private detective to follow her, without the detective knowing that she had arranged it, with the hopes that his investigation would provide photographic evidence of her existence."