The Sleepers (Les dormeurs)

Sophie Calle · 1979

Here we have The Sleepers (Les dormeurs) — a photograph by Calle, nineteen seventy-nine. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray.

Medium Gelatin silver print · 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), Tito

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