I caught you
Contributed by Merry Gay-Perret on Oct 13th, 2025. Artwork published in
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I caught you is an editorial work inspired by Steven Spielberg’s film Catch Me If You Can, which recounts the life of the famous fraudster Frank Jr. Abagnale.
Putting myself in the shoes of an investigator and a forger, I catalogued the various documents forged by F. Abagnale that appear in the film. I then recreated them as facsimiles and incorporated them into the edition.
These documents interact with scenes from the film in which they appear, the text of Frank Abagnale’s autobiography (which inspired the film), as well as excerpts and images from the book The Art of the Steal, in which the forger shares his knowledge of forgery and explains how to protect oneself from fraud.
Printed in March 2023 at isdaT, Toulouse.
Merry Gay-Perret. License: All Rights Reserved.
Merry Gay-Perret. License: All Rights Reserved.
Merry Gay-Perret. License: All Rights Reserved.
Merry Gay-Perret. License: All Rights Reserved.
Merry Gay-Perret. License: All Rights Reserved.
1 Comment on “I caught you”
A lovely project!
One of the original props produced for film, the medical degree certificate for Frank Conners, was sold in an auction in 2024. The formal script on it is Palace Script which was around in 1962 (and available from Letraset at the time). However, the blackletter is not period correct: it’s Agincourt – which was designed by David Quay only in 1983.