<span style="color: #ffffff;">d</span>Elsbeth Pijnappels
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![[Photobooks featured by team FOTODOK]
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Each week a FOTODOK team member highlights a photo book of his or her choice - rediscovered in their bookcases while working from home and an extra thanks to all photobook makers!
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This week: educator at FOTODOK Elsbeth Pijnappels (@something_elsy) chooses 'Take care of yourself' by Sophie Calle.
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Elsbeth: 'What do you do when your loved one breaks up with you via email? Artist Sophie Calle turned her heartbreak into art. The letter from her ex, a writer, is a carefully written farewell that concludes with the now legendary words "Prenez soin de vous" or "take good care of yourself".
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Sophie: "I asked 107 women, chosen to interpret the email because of their profession or skills - to analyze, comment, dance, sing in relation to the email. To treat the letter exhaustively. To understand it for me. To answer the letter for me. It was a way to take time, break it but foremost to take care of myself."
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The book is one of my favorites because the publication succeeded in capturing the experience of looking at the works as I saw it in Museum de Pont (2010). Different kinds of paper, small bound booklets, inserted DVDs with meditation, music and video, Braille paper and the portraits of the women with the letter. It is an appealing and thorough investigation into love, sorrow, rejection and failure, sometimes with humor, sometimes devious. A shared response from women with a different expertise but all an authority in their field.'](https://www.fotodok.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)