Because...

This new edition is expanded with 6 new stories as well as 7 new photographs. In July 1985, Sophie Calle was invited, as well as Hervé Guibert, Jacques Monory and Denis Roche, to project and comment on my photographs at the Theater antique of Arles. Denis Roche closed the program with a wonderful idea. In the darkness, he recounted the moments leading up to his decision to take a picture, then he would show the image for the time of a click." It is through this story, Déclic, the click of the camera as well as that of the brain in which the idea arises, that Sophie Calle opens Because. Like Denis Roche, she undertakes to tell the story there reason, or at least one reason, that made her press the shutter. Thus reversing the natural primacy relationship between an image and the words that accompanying her, Sophie Calle raises a reflection on the influence that can have these on our reception of the photograph. This does not reveal itself besides that has posteriori, hidden in the interstice of the Japanese binding. Far from to be reduced to mere legends, these words – a thought, a story or a question mark – do not adhere in a manner consistent with the image that accompanies them : on the contrary, they mark a strong contrast with it, most often with malice, sometimes with nostalgia. Sophie Calle has thus produced a work with an original design, which is part of in the continuity of his impertinent and poetic work.