Carnets new-yorkais by Jean-Christian Bourcart immerses us in the photographer's visual repertoire, with its obsessions, recurrences, disruptions and experiments. Based on the forty-eight notebooks he wrote while living in New York, between 1998 and 2005, the book unfolds like a visual atlas, a black box of the artist's work that constitutes a first stage in the selection of his photographs prior to the conception of series. 

A repertory of forms, with its interplay of echoes and formal reminiscences, the Carnets new-yorkais also bear witness to an era. They reveal the way in which Bourcart seizes, lives and captures the world, like a sounding board, as well as the singularity of his protean writing. Transgressing all the rules of documentary photography, his images tell fragments of the stories of our times in a photographic style that blends investigation, personal experience and formal invention.