Edwards, NatalieMansfield, LisaHoadley, Debra Anne2022-10-142022-10-142022https://hdl.handle.net/2440/136625Two French artists, Sophie Calle and Mathieu Briand, have conceived projects that are based on accepting the work of others as a primary source of the work made. These works are viewed as collaborative and the artist is seen as the orchestrator who invites, coordinates, sometimes makes and is eventually responsible for producing the completed, final work. The works’ cohorts are seen as brotherhood and sisterhood, united only by the work made, gendered by those invited to participate. The artists collaborate, not only with their invited participants, but with a series of foundational texts that are instrumental in producing the works. Portraiture is the expression of collaboration and is handled very differently by the two artists. Given the expansiveness of these projects and the number of participants, the question arises as to whom the work belongs and who is able to claim it; the issue of signature is thus addressed. Finally, the impression that photography marks the passing of time and, indeed, death, is suggested by these two projects that unintentionally demonstrate this notion to be true.enCollaborationPhotographyArtistThesis