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First published in French in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photo book classic, and now expanded and reissued in this first English-language edition from Actes Sud, True Stories gathers a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by Sophie Calle. Calle's projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this book--part visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings--is as close as she has come to producing an autobiography, albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary. The first section is composed of various reflections on objects such as a shoe, a postcard, a bathrobe and a bed, or musings on the artist's body, such as The Love Letter : For years a love letter languished on my desk. I had never received a love letter, so I paid a public scribe to write one. Eight days later, I received seven beautiful pages of pure poetry penned in ink. It had cost me one hundred francs and the man said: '...as for myself, without moving from my chair I was everywhere with you.' The second section of the book, The Husband, is comprised of ten recollections of episodes from Calle's first marriage, by turns funny ( He was an unreliable man. For our first date he showed up one year late ), erotic and sad. A third section gathers various autobiographical tales, and the book closes with three interlinked stories titled Monique. This new edition includes five new photo-text presentations and is the first English translation.

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