Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.”
Background
Sophie Calle is a conceptual artist and was born October 9th, 1953 in Paris, France.
Her father was an oncologist as well as an art collector while her mother was a book critic.
Calle studied under Jean Baudrillard instead of going to university and later found her love for photography.
After travelling in her twenties, she was inspired by the work of artist Duane Michals. She began working on photography, with no though or intent to pursue it as a career.
Her first established work, Suite Venitienne (1979), occurred when she followed a random man from Paris to Venice while disguised, secretly photographing him throughout the adventure.
Her work consists of following people around, obsessing over them and their actions, photographing them commonly without them knowing - in their natural habitat.
Calle's work is not only of photography, but also literature. Calle is a successful writer with many books published, with her photography incorporated in some as well.
Today she teaches film and photography in Switzerland at the European Graduate School.
Her father was an oncologist as well as an art collector while her mother was a book critic.
Calle studied under Jean Baudrillard instead of going to university and later found her love for photography.
After travelling in her twenties, she was inspired by the work of artist Duane Michals. She began working on photography, with no though or intent to pursue it as a career.
Her first established work, Suite Venitienne (1979), occurred when she followed a random man from Paris to Venice while disguised, secretly photographing him throughout the adventure.
Her work consists of following people around, obsessing over them and their actions, photographing them commonly without them knowing - in their natural habitat.
Calle's work is not only of photography, but also literature. Calle is a successful writer with many books published, with her photography incorporated in some as well.
Today she teaches film and photography in Switzerland at the European Graduate School.
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Calle's First Work
Suite Venitienne (1979) |
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Sources
Barr, Jenny. “What Are the Main Elements of Sophie Calle's Use of Image and Text?” New Minds Eye, 26 May 2016, https://newmindseye.wordpress.com/what-are-the-main-elements-of-sophie-calles-use-of-image-and-text/. Tate. “Sophie Calle Born 1953.” Tate, 1 Jan. 1981, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sophie-calle-2692. “Sophie Calle: 'What Attracts Me Is Absence, Missing, Death...' | Eva Wiseman.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 2 July 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/02/sophie-calle-art-interview-what-attracts-me-is-absence-missing-death. “Sophie Calle - Artist.” Perrotin, 2021, https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Sophie_Calle/1#news. “Sophie Calle.” Artnet.com, 2021, http://www.artnet.com/artists/sophie-calle/. “Sophie Calle.” Metmuseum.org, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=Sophie%20calle. |
