STALKERSTRIPPERSLEEPER
SPY
SOPHIE CALLE
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
For months I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of
following them, not because they particularly interested me. I
photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their
movements, then finally lost sight of them and forgot them. - SC
"To shadow another is to give him, in fact, double life, a parallel existence. Any
commonplace existence can be transfigured (without one's knowledge), any exceptional existence can be made commonplace. It is
this effect of doubling that makes the object surreal in its banality and weaves around it the strange (eventually dangerous?) web of
seduction." - Jean Baudrillard
''Photography is itself an art of disappearance, which captures the other vanished in front of
the lens, which preserves him vanished on film, which, unlike a gaze, saves nothing of the other
but his vanished presence - JB
I who followed him, I can assure you that no one was there. These are not
souvenir snapshots of a presence, but rather shots of an absence, the absence of the followed, that of the follower, that
of the reciprocal absence.
Take Care of Yourself 2007
Cindy Sherman
Tracy Emin