Topic 2 - Methods and Meaning - Activity Response
As part of the webinar for this week we had to look at a photographer from the presentation that interested us. I decided to look further into the work of Sophie Calle. This is the response I put in the forum:
I looked at Sophie Calle's The Hotel as when reading about her it stood out. She took a job as a chambermaid at a hotel and documented the rooms that she was assigned to clean. She describes the methodology as: 'During my cleaning hours I examined the personal effects of travellers, the signs of the temporary installation of certain clients, their succession in the same room. I observed in detail the lives that remained foreign to me.'(Sheringham 2006). Presentation wise the photographs were displayed with information on the details of the person Calle found in the rooms above a photograph of the bed in the room and below the text details from the room like for room 30 the nightdress on the chair. When you look at the work and read the details of the person, you can see the level of detail that Calle has gone into almost like a detective trying to find out who committed a crime in the room. You build a picture of who the person is.
Sophie Calle - The Hotel (The Tate)
I then took this further and used her 1998 work The Chromatic Diet as an inspiration for this weeks 52 week photo challenge, which I am completing with friends, based on one colour.
SHERINGHAM, Michael. 2006. ‘Checking Out: The Investigation of the Everyday in Sophie Calle’s L’Hôtel’. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 10(4), [online], 415–24. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17409290601040437#d1e159 [accessed 1 Oct 2021].
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