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Calle, Sophie (b. 1953) La Fille du Docteur.
New York: Thea Westreich, 1991.
First edition, limited issue, quarto; number 58 of 230 copies signed by Calle in ink on a mounted card colophon; text in French and English; 16 black-and-white photographs of Calle's striptease on semi-translucent paper opposite reproductions of congratulatory cards given to Calle's parents at her birth, each housed in a glassine envelope tipped to facing blank; original full leopard-print velveteen, purple endpapers (lacking original box); 11 x 7 3/4 in.
A "beautifully produced book", La Fille du Docteur considers issues of gender and desire "with complexity and subtlety, though with an admirable economy of means." (Quoted from The Photobook.)
