Sophie Calle - Appointment
with Sigmund Freud
Sophie Calle
Afterword by James Putnam
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| '‘Utterly compelling...’ | | – The Sunday Telegraph |
‘There is one writer/
photographer at work today who seems to be properly exploiting the possibilities of integrating text and image ... Sophie Calle is well worth seeking out…’ | – Alain de Botton,
The Independent on Sunday |
‘In February 1998, I was invited to create an exhibition entitled Appointment at a house at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, where Dr Freud lived and died. After having a vision of my wedding dress laid across Freud’s couch, I immediately accepted. I chose to display relics of my own life amongst the interior of Sigmund’s home’ – Sophie Calle
A unique and beautifully produced assembly of Calle’s own texts and personal objects juxtaposed with objects from Sigmund Freud’s personal collection, still kept in his Hampstead house, Appointment features fragments from the artist’s own fascinating life story, characteristic texts that reveal intimate secrets and unravel some of Calle’s childhood memories as well as her adult relationships.
Calle’s references to certain mementoes and the emotionally charged events with which they are associated have many parallels to Freud’s own psychoanalytic theories and his passion for collecting.
Also of interest:
Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers
Martine Franck: One Day to the Next
With a faxed Conversation between John Berger and
Martine Franck
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500511993 | | ISBN-13 978-0500511992 | | | | 18.4 x 14.4 cm | | Hardback without Jacket | | 156pp | | Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout | | First published 2005 | | | | £22.50 | | | |  | | | | 
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