CALLE, SOPHIE | La Fille du Docteur. New York, New York: Thea Westreich, 1991
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CALLE, SOPHIE
La Fille du Docteur. New York, New York: Thea Westreich, 1991
4to (11 x 8 in.; 278 x 204 mm). 16 photographs of Calle's striptease on semi-translucent paper, shown facing reproductions of congratulatory cards given to Calle's parents at her birth, each housed in a glassine envelope. Publisher's leopard print cloth, purple endpapers; very minor handling wear.
No 81 of 230 copies, signed by the artist on the colophon.
A "beautifully produced book," La Fille du Docteur treats gender and eroticism "with complexity and subtlety, though with an admirable economy of means" (The Photobook, vol. II, pp 166-67).