A limited edition artist’s book that records the unfolding of a striptease performance; both artist and “strip-artist” in this readymade routine are Sopie Calle. La Fille du Docteur is comprised of fifteen reproductions of photographs of Calle in various states of undress, enveloped calling cards reproducing the original annotated cards presented to Calles’s parents on the occasion of her birth, and translated text in English. La Fille du Docteur extends Calle’s life-long autobiographical project of collapsing the social within the personal so as to investigate the methods and reasons that the two poles are often held apart.

The limited edition is handbound in faux leopard cloth and presented in a labeled box.

68 pages
18 b/w reproductions and 15 printed calling cards in glassine envelopes
11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
Limited edition of 230