L'Hotel

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SIGNED. First edition. The book has been bumped at the center of the spine with a corresponding tear, and creasing to both book and dust jacket. Otherwise, Near Fine trade paperback with sewn signatures and French folds with light toning around the edges and light wear at the extremes in a Very Good dj with light wear at the edges. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, BOXED. Calle's controversial artist's book is the result of three weeks spent working as a chambermaid in a hotel in Venice in 1981. She tried to construct a narrative of the lives of the guests by examining, itemizing, and photographing their personal belongings and the condition the room was left in. The book contains her observations in the form of a surveillance log accompanied by her photographs. Photographs and texts by Sophie Calle. INSCRIBED BY CALLE on the endpaper to Richard Bellamy. Opposite, on the inside front cover, is a sticker with the address and phone number of Bellamy's Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY. Bellamy was a New York art dealer and champion of avant garde art as well as an early supporter of Calle. 108 pages; b&w photographs throughout; 7 x 8.25 inches. Text in French. N° de ref. del artículo 8885

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