Jean-Christian Bourcart will be present on Friday, November 29, from 6:30 PM for a discussion with Philippe Artières and Guillaume Blanc-Marianne about the publication of his New York Notebooks, published by Atelier EXB.
Jean-Christian Bourcart's New York Notebooks immerse us in the photographer's visual repertoire, revealing his obsessions, recurrences, disruptions, and experiments. Compiled from forty-eight notebooks created during his time in New York, between 1998 and 2005, the book unfolds as a visual atlas—a kind of black box for the artist—serving as a first step in selecting his photographs before developing series.
A repertoire of forms with its echoes and formal reminiscences, the New York Notebooks are also a testimony to an era. They reveal how Bourcart engages with, experiences, and captures the world, acting as a resonating chamber while showcasing the singularity of his multifaceted approach. Transcending all the conventions of documentary photography, his images narrate fragments of contemporary stories through a photographic language that merges investigation, personal experience, and formal invention.
