The book immerses us in the visual repertoire of Jean-Christian Bourcart, with its obsessions, recurrences, disruptions and experiments. Based on the forty-eight notebooks he kept while living in New York between 1998 and 2005, it unfolds like a visual atlas, a black box of the artist’s work and a first stage in selecting photographs before the conception of series, a repertory of forms with echoes and formal reminiscences.