The Sleepers (Les dormeurs)

Sophie Calle · 1979

This is The Sleepers — one hundred and seventy-six photographs and twenty-three text panels. In nineteen seventy-nine Sophie Calle invited strangers to sleep in her own bed, in shifts, for eight days, and photographed them every hour.

Medium One hundred seventy-six gelatin silver prints and twenty-three text panels · Dimensions Overall 61 1/4 × 176 × 1" (155.6 × 447 × 2.5 cm) · Credit Acquired through the generosity of Clarissa A. Bronfman, Nathalie M. Cohen, Joseph M. Cohen, Ian M. Cook, David A. Dechman, Thomas Dunn, Anne Ehrenkranz, Robert Harteveldt, Charles Heilbronn, Jo Carole Lauder, Robert B. Menschel, Peter Norton, Donna Redel, Richard O. Rieger, Pamela Spiegel Sanders, Jon L. Stryker, Steven Tananbaum, and Clark B. Winter Jr., in honor of Quentin Bajac

Hanging beside it in Gallery 419: The Sleepers (Les dormeurs)

More by Sophie Calle here: The Sleepers (Les dormeurs), Tito