A city that has inspired the greatest photographers and filmmakers, New York offers, to the observant eye, every facet of the contemporary world. A veritable theatrum mundi, it unfolds as a global city: sweeping urban vistas, multicultural neighbourhoods, bustling streets where businessmen mingle with ladies in old-fashioned chic, diners for the lonely, pop-style neon signs, stalls of small street vendors, carefree teenagers… New York is a stage of gigantic proportions on which the photographer Harry Gruyaert has been wandering for over fifty years.

A master of colour, he invites us, in a book conceived as a grand album, to a sensory immersion: each image unfolds across a double-page spread, in the style of a storyboard. To accompany this visual journey, Harry Gruyaert invited Cédric Klapisch to devise short narratives. As the pages unfold, the director weaves a storyline punctuated by vignettes in which the characters captured by Gruyaert come to life, like actors. The city resonates with voices, dreams and the sounds of the street. New York oscillates between reality and fiction.