Book description
This expanded edition of Calle's 1994 classic features four new tales
First published in French in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and since republished and enhanced, True Stories returns for the fifth time, gathering a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle,…
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Why read it?
1 author picked True Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In these very short autobiographical pieces, each one paired with a photograph, Sophie Calle illuminates various small and large moments from her life in Paris and elsewhere, from her childhood through her parents' deaths. I have yet to meet a person who is not enchanted by this thin, endearing, and magical book.
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