Sophie Calle - Unoriginal Sins

SOPHIE CALLE. 2017. SINGLE NUMBER (46) OF SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MAGAZIN.

paul robertson — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:39:45 +0000

Berlin: Süddeutsche Zeitung verlag, 2018

20 x 18cm, 88pp (self cover). The Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine has a tradition of the 46th number being dedicated to a single artist. Here the artist is Sophie Calle with a long essay and interview in German and many golour and b/w images of works. One of the harder to find numbers in the series. VG+.

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BUENA VISTA. 1989.

paul robertson — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:25:20 +0000

NYC: John Gibson Gallery, 1989

23 x 15cm, 36pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a show curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo which included works by William Anastasi, Ford Beckman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Peter Halley, Allan McCollum, and Vik Muniz. Long essay in english by both curators and 15 b/w images of works by Becher, Calle etc. VG+.

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MAKE THE MAGAZINE OF WOMEN’S ART. Nr 83. 1999.

paul robertson — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:34:56 +0000

London: Make, 1999

30 x 21cm, 40pp plus card covers. A single number of this feminist art journal with articles and reviews of Sophie Calle, Ceal Floyer, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Wright, as well as more generalist essays on sexuality, body image and the gender debates of the late 90s. Colour images throughout. VG+.

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KUNST IM DEUTSCHEN BUNDESTAG. 1996.

paul robertson — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 11:40:35 +0000

Berlin: Deutschen Bundestag, n.d. (1996)

21 x 10cm, 6pp. The promotional card for Calle's installation in the Berlin Byndestag of Die Entfernung - The Detachment“, which looks at the the way that elements of GDR history has been effaced post unification by asking passersby to describe the missing public objects. Four colour images of the installation and the original city alongside a text in German. VG+.

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MOI AUSSI. 2012.

paul robertson — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:36:22 +0000

Paris: Les Presses du Reel, 2012

21 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for the publication of the artist's book showing all of Calle's birthday presents from 1980 to 2012. VG+.

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BUENA VISTA. 1989.

paul robertson — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:37:46 +0000

NYC: John Gibson, 1989
21x 15cm, unpaginated (40pp) plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a group show with sculptural and photographic works - each artist one b/w images of a work and a short essay by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, interview. Included in the show were William Anastasi, Ford Beckman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Suzan Etkin, Peter Halley, Peter Hopkins, Allan McCollum, Vik Muniz, Wolfgang Robbe, Salvatore Scarpitta, Nancy Shaver, Tyler Turkle and Meg Webster. VG+.

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DAMIEN HIRST (WITH SOPHIE CALLE) – ONE OF ONLY 250 SIGNED & NUMBERED COPIES WITH RARE HANDOUT

paul robertson — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:10:55 +0000

London: Institute of Contemporary Art/Jay Joplin, 1991
26 x 21.5cm, unpaginated (68pp)) plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for Hirst's major show at the ICA curated by Joplin and with a text by Charles Hall as well as an 'dialogue' by Sophie Calle with Hirst - the former having met the YBA and having asked him to write to her an erotic love letter despite he having only then met her. Hirst did this and Calle hints that the letter was not disappointing to her. There are 29 works by Hirst reproduced most full page and in colour. This is one of ONLY 250 numbered and signed copies released at the time and is in fine condition.

Given Hirst's book editions since have mostly had limitations in excess of 1,000 copies then this is especially scarce. Fine apart from a slight print flaw where some of the yellow embossing ink has smeared over the left of the front cover (a faint mark that looks much worse than it is in the photograph here) and a few very small scuffs on the back cover that do not detract.
ADDED:
A 2pp A4 handout from the show which reproduces some correspondence between Calle and Hirst - therein, Hirst asks Calle to interview him for the book but Calle declines Hirst's offer in the letters, but says "perhaps you could ask yourself questions that I would have asked you, in an interview".

PRICE IS FOR BOTH ITEMS TOGETHER

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SOME WENT MAD, SOME RAN AWAY. 1994. YBA SHOW CURATED BY DAMIEN HIRST.

paul robertson — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:30:18 +0000

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1994
30 x 23cm, 48pp plus pictorial card covers with extended folds. Exhibition catalogue of a travelling group show which was curated by Damien Hirst and included Ashley Bickerton, Kiki Smith, Angus Fairhurst, Marcus Harvey, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sophie Calle, Johannes Albers, Robert Peacock, Jane Simpson, Andreas Slominski, Alexis Rockman, Michael Joaquin Grey, Michael Joo and Abigail Lane.Thirty full page, full colour reproductions of works (two per artist) and a short essay by Richard Shone in English and Danish. Fine. Scarce.

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MY ALL. 2015. SIGNED BY CALLE.

paul robertson — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:05:29 +0000

Arles: Actes Sud, 2015
15.5 x 11 x 2cm, gold card diecut slipcase content of 54 individual 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp postcards each with a different work by Calle and one 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp colophon postcard. This example is unusually signed on the colophon card by Calle in black ink. Fine.

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PRENEZ SOIN DE VOIS/ABBIA CURA SI SE/TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. 2007.

paul robertson — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:04:01 +0000

Venice: n.p. (French Pavilion), 2007
30 x 21cm, n.p. (48pp), self cover. B/w apart from red rubber stamping of title on front cover. First edition of this artist's book which consists of Calle's slightly vengeful circulation of an email where an anonymous man has ended a relationship (finishing with the words "take care of yourself") to 107 women (each with a different specialisation) to respond to. Additionally in a "Commissario" Daniel Buren has ordered all of the female names in the exhibition alphabetically at the front of this artist's book. Slight grubbiness to fornt pages else VG. Scarce.

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L’HOTEL. 1884. CALLE’S THIRD ARTIST’S BOOK

paul robertson — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:02:17 +0000

Paris, Editions de l'Ã©toile (collection Ecrit sur l'image), 1984.
21 x 18cm, unpaginated. Card covers. First edition of this Calle's third artist's book displaying pictures of the belongings of visitors to a hotel where she was working as a chambermaid - the images were taken without the permission of the occupants. Text in French. Very scarce and near fine.

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L’HOMME AU CARNET. 1983. VERY SCARCE LIBERATION NEWSPAPER

paul robertson — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:59:31 +0000

Paris: Journal Liberation du mardi 2 Aout 1983 (#684)
38 x 29 cm, original artist's publication (29pp, consisting of 1/3rd of each page each illustrated with a single photograph by the artist) to be found within the pages of the national French newspaper Liberation. The text relates diary entries arising from a found address book belonging to 'Pierre D.' and the connections made from this chance find. With a 1pp companion explanatory text in French by Christian Caujolle. Obviously the original edition size was enormous but most would have been discarded. Slight bump to the overall shape of the journal but otherwise very good.

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