Christian Bourcart expose New York notebooks at the gallery The girls of Calvary until November 30, an eponymous book is published by the editions Atelier EXB. On November 15, the opening of the exhibition took place. “Life is a dream and the images are the proof” au Nicéphore Niépce museum from Chalon sur Saône.
In 2020, the photographer bequeathed his archives to the Nicéphore-Niépce museum. Among this collection, 48 research notebooks composed of 10 × 15 prints arranged in plates, which reveal the formal concerns of the author in their constancy and their variations. This “typological atlas” immerses us in Bourcart’s visual universe by linking his most famous series in the flow of general production. Anonymous suburbs, ruins of the Wall Trade Center, swingers’ clubs, urban wanderings… Bourcart photographs crowds, solitude, traces of activity; he tracks and questions our presence in the world, aware that photography is a fiction based on the reality of life. Designed as a facsimile of the original notebooks, this “atlas”, with its flow of more than 300 images, takes us into the photographer’s imagination, revealing his obsessions, his recurrences and his fascination with breaking down the barriers of forms of representation.
Christian Bourcart: New York notebooks
Until November 30, 2024
The girls of Calvary
17 rue des Filles du Calvaire
75003 Paris
www.fillesducalvaire.com
Atelier EXB
www.exb.fr
Nicéphore Niépce museum
www.museeniepce.com
