I only found out about Sophie Calle as I’m reading the book “The Photograph as Contemporary Art” by Charlotte Cotton. I was completely fascinated by the description and wanted to know more about her. She is a French woman with an amazing body of work, always acting at the intersection between public, on display and private or intimate.
Her artworks very often involved following and meetings strangers. Such as Suite Vénitienne, a book that resulted from Sophie’s following a man she met at a party.
‘For months I followed strangers in the street. For the pleasure of following them, not because they particularly interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, then finally lost sight of them and forgot them.At the end of January 1980, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom I lost sight of a few minutes later in the crowd. That very evening, by chance, he was introduced to me at an opening. During the course of our conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice.’
She left Paris and went to Venice, trying to find this man. After finding out in what hotel did he live, she persuaded a woman who lived opposite to let Sophie photograph the man. She remained in Venice for two weeks.
Bowl of cherries 
