Title (Dublin Core)

The Shadow

Description (Dublin Core)

In April 1981, a detective followed the French artist Sophie Calle through the streets of Paris for one day. Hired by her mother at the artist’s request, the detective logged her movements and photographed her activities as she, without his knowledge, recorded her experience of being watched. She later exhibited the reports side-by-side in her piece “La Filature” (“The Shadow,” 1981), which highlights Calle’s method of working over three decades. Staging provocations resembling seduction, documenting them with snapshot photography and a forensic first-person point of view, she crosses the thresholds of voyeur and exhibitionist, public and private, conceptual control and chance.

Creator (Dublin Core)

Calle, Sophie

Date (Dublin Core)

1981

Type (Dublin Core)

photographs and text

Medium (Dublin Core)

text (layout feature)

black-and-white prints (photographs)

Subject (Dublin Core)

surveillance

Voyeurism in art

Private investigators

Source (Dublin Core)

"Following Sophie Calle" (Hyperallergic article"

Extent (Dublin Core)

75 x 115 inches

place of creation (VRA Ontology)

Paris

place of repository (VRA Ontology)

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Identifier (Dublin Core)

93.66

Has Version (Dublin Core)

version in french: "La Filature"