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Sophie Calle: The Hotel
by Calle, Sophie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New (sealed in publisher's wrap; may have rubbing, light wear to corners, edges)
- ISBN 10
- 193822129X
- ISBN 13
- 9781938221293
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Siglio, 2021. Hardcover. New (sealed in publisher's wrap; may have rubbing, light wear to corners, edges). floral, decorative cloth boards w/ gilt stamped printing. 241 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. all edge gilt. In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts through the evidence of the hotel guests' lives. Assigned 12 rooms on the fourth floor, she surveys the state of the guests' bedding, their books, newspapers and postcards, perfumes and cologne, traveling clothes and costumes for Carnival. She methodically photographs the contents of closets and suitcases, examining the detritus in the rubbish bin and the toiletries arranged on the washbasin. She discovers their birth dates and blood types, diary entries, letters from and photographs of lovers and family. She eavesdrops on arguments and love-making. She retrieves a pair of shoes from the wastebasket and takes two chocolates from a neglected box of sweets, while leaving behind stashes of money, pills and jewelry. Her thievery is the eye of the camera, observing the details that were not meant for her, or us, to see. 'The Hotel' now manifests as a book for the first time in English (it was previously included in the book Double Game). Collaborating with the artist on a new design that features enhanced and larger photographs, and pays specific attention to the beauty of the book as an object, Siglio is releasing its third book authored by Calle, after The Address Book (2012) and Suite Vénitienne (2015).--WorldCat.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 193328
- Title
- Sophie Calle: The Hotel
- Author
- Calle, Sophie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 193822129X
- ISBN 13
- 9781938221293
- Publisher
- Siglio
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- European Artists, Sophie Calle ; Calle, Sophie ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Biblio member since 2004
Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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