"Reread New York"
New York is the most photographed city in the world, probably because in itself it is a total work of art, as already said, Marcel Duchamp in 1915. Since the end of the 19th century, over the years, the urban landscape is constantly changing, in a continuous recreation. Changing New York: this is the title of the photographic series that Berenice Abbott made in the 1930s, and this name could suit him every new decade.
By this very fact, to discover the Great Apple through the gaze of the photographers who, from 1890 to today, have grasped it in its diversity, is to engage in multiple relectures of the city. Indeed, if any reading, whether text or image, consists in capturing relevant clues of a reality, the clues that would make us a vivid and entire image of New York are constantly changing.
Robert Pujade, Maître de Conférences en Esthétique et Science des Arts, analyses this unusual journey of re-reading from major works in the history of photography.
Her lecture will be punctuated by readings by Laurence Besson, actress of the National Popular Theatre of Villeurbanne, literary excerpts on New York as L'Amérique by Franz Kafka, Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, J'aime New-York by Jean-Paul Sartre, in Situation III, 2, La femme à part de Vivian Gornick ... autant de relectures de New York que de sensibilités.