The Address Book a key and controversial work in Sophie Calles oeuvre lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris Calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by ing listed individualsin essence following him through the map of his acquaintances. Originally published as a serial in the newspaper Libration over the course of one month her incisive written accounts with friends family and colleagues juxtaposed with photographs yield vivid subjective impressions of the address books owner Pierre D. while also suggesting ever more complicated stories as information is parsed and withheld by the people she encounters. Collaged through a multitude of detailsfrom the banal to the luminous this fragile and strangely intimate portrait of Pierre D. is a prism through which to see the desire for and the elusivity of knowledge. Upon learning of this work and its publication in the newspaper Pierre D. expressed his anger and Calle agreed not to republish the work until after his death. Until then The Address Book had only been described in Englishas the work of the character Maria Turner whom Paul Auster based on Calle in his novel Leviathan and in Double Game Calles monograph which converses with Austers novel. This is the first trade publication in English of The Address Book Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles released a suite of lithographs modeled on the original tabloid pages from Libration in an edition of 24. The book has the physical weight and feel of an actual address book with a new design of text and images which allow the story to unfold and be savored by the reader.