Fülszöveg
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.
At the end ofJanuary 1980, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom
I fost sight of a few minutes later in the crowd. That very evening, quite by
chance, he was introduced to me at an opening. During the course of our
conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice____
—Sophie Calle
To follow the other is to take charge of his itinerary; it is to watch over
his life without him knowing it; it is to relieve him of that existential
burden, the responsibility for his own life. Simultaneously, she who
follows is herself relieved of responsibility for her own life as she follows
blindly in the footsteps of the other. A wonderful reciprocity exists in
the cancellation of each existence, in the...
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Fülszöveg
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.
At the end ofJanuary 1980, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom
I fost sight of a few minutes later in the crowd. That very evening, quite by
chance, he was introduced to me at an opening. During the course of our
conversation, he told me he was planning an imminent trip to Venice____
—Sophie Calle
To follow the other is to take charge of his itinerary; it is to watch over
his life without him knowing it; it is to relieve him of that existential
burden, the responsibility for his own life. Simultaneously, she who
follows is herself relieved of responsibility for her own life as she follows
blindly in the footsteps of the other. A wonderful reciprocity exists in
the cancellation of each existence, in the cancellation of each subject's
tenuous position as a subject. Following the other, one replaces him,
exchanges lives, passions, wills, transforms oneself in the other's stead.
—Jean Baudrillard
Vissza