Cash Machine (detail), 2003

B&W print, aluminium, frame (x397), DVD "Unfinished"
30 x 40 cm
11 13/16 x 15 3/4 inches
In 1988 an American bank invited me to do a project. Their automatic tellers had video cameras that filmed clients as they went unsuspectingly about their business. I managed to get hold of some recordings. The images were beautiful but I thought if I just used them as found documents, without adding anything of my own, I would be betraying my own style. I needed an idea to go with these faces. Fifteen years later I decided to go back over my research, delineate the anatomy of this failure and, at last, free myself of these images. Give up before their presence. © Sophie Calle / ADAGP, Paris & Sack, Seoul, 2014; Courtesy Galerie Perrotin.
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