200 pages Edited by Nathalie Chapuis Text(s) by Cédric Klapisch Photograph(s) by Harry Gruyaert 31,1 x 23 cm Language: French & English Hardback Publisher: Atelier EXB 2026
A city that has inspired some of the greatest photographers and filmmakers, New York offers, to those who know how to observe it, every facet of the contemporary world. A true theatrum mundi, it unfolds as a global city: vast urban perspectives, multicultural neighborhoods, bustling streets where businesspeople mingle with elegantly old-fashioned ladies, diners for the lonely, glowing pop signs, stalls of small street vendors, carefree teenagers… New York is a stage of gigantic proportions, upon which photographer Harry Gruyaert has been wandering for more than fifty years.
A master of color, he invites us, in a book conceived as a large-format album, into a sensory immersion: each image spreads across a double page, like a storyboard. To accompany this visual journey, Harry Gruyaert invited Cédric Klapisch to imagine short narratives. Page after page, the filmmaker unfolds a scenario punctuated with vignettes in which the figures captured by Gruyaert come to life like actors. The city resonates with voices, dreams, and the sounds of the street. New York hovers between reality and fiction.
