Description
The latest edition of Sophie Calle''s classic artist's book features three new tales
First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since, this new edition of True Stories returns with three new stories. Calle's projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this bookpart visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongingsis as close as she has come to producing an autobiography, albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary, as is characteristic of her work. The talesnever longer than a pageare by turns lighthearted, humorous, serious, dramatic or cruel. Each is accompanied by an image; each offers a fragment of life. Calle herself is the author, narrator and protagonist of her stories and photography. Her words are somber, chosen precisely and carefully. She offers up her own memorieschildhood, marriage, sex and deathwith brilliant humor, insight and pleasure. By turns serious, hilarious, dramat