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États-Unis, semestriel, 128 p., no 2, 205 x 275 mm, 8,50 €
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MY CITY OF RUINS
Nicholas Kulish reported on Egypt’s revolution for The New York Times.
Months later, he returned to Alexandria for another look at this beguiling,
bewildering metropolis, tracing its tumultuous history from its ancient
origins to an uncertain future. Night has fallen over Alexandria
but my wristwatch insisted it was still day. Angry black smoke spewed
from burning tires and molten plastic. The files and the furniture inside
police stations, the stations themselves, even one of the city’s famous
tram stations was on fire. The smoke rose up and blotted out the
sky, drifting out beyond the island of Pharos, where long ago stood
the lighthouse that was one of the wonders of the ancient world. Only
far out over the Mediterranean was the afternoon’s blue sky still visible.
My introduction to the ancient city of Alexandria was harsh and
unusual. I arrived on January 26, 2011, from Cairo, where the revolution
that would eventually take its name from the Twitter-ized designation of
the previous day − #jan25 − had just begun. The first thing I saw out the
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La banalisation des vols charter a changé notre manière de voyager : depuis vingt
ans, on vole plus loin et plus souvent. Mais cette démocratisation n’est pas l’unique
évolution : de nombreux métiers ont été révolutionnés par la facilité du voyage, parmi
lesquels les industries créatives et de l’image. Le voyage non comme un outil mais
comme un lifestyle ? C’est le propos de Trunk (« malle » en anglais). Un photographe,
une rédactrice et de nombreux contacts (photographes, journalistes, stylistes, designers)
qui parcourent la planète pour raisons professionnelles ou personnelles – les
deux se mêlant parfois. Chaque morceau de Trunk est une plongée dans un pays, une
culture, une histoire : l’Éthiopie, un rallye automobile Londres - Oulan-Bator, les volcans
indonésiens ou les lofts d’artistes new-yorkais émergents si vous êtes trop dépaysés.
C’est d’ailleurs l’une des curiosités du magazine : difficile de lui donner un port
d’attache. Il est américain, soit, mais pas plus NY que LA, et autant Europe qu’Asie.
Parce que c’est une rédactrice qui est l’une des deux moitiés du magazine, les voyages
de Trunk sont aussi des récits, écrits. On découvre quelques séries mode (mood 40
dans un jardin de l’ex-Allemagne de l’Est, un remake de Gainsbourg-Birkin…) et, là
aussi, la styliste livre ses références et son intention, comme une mise en mots de son
récit visuel. Le côté hors du temps de Trunk est assez singulier, et sa baseline “The
world is a fine place”, empruntée à Hemingway, une invitation engageante.
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car window upon my arrival was a small cluster of protesters unfurling
a banner. We were forced to brake hard as they were chased by blackclad
riot police in front of our car and onto the broad coastal boulevard
called the Corniche. They were outnumbered, surrounded and swallowed
up by the security forces, a prelude to the violence to come. When
writing about Alexandria, visitors usually begin far in the past, with
the lighthouse and the Great Library, the vanished glory sought by archaeologists
at the bottom of the harbor, where the ancient buildings
lie broken. As such, the city in its current form cannot help but disappoint:
a wall of concrete high-rises blocking off the coast, surrounded
by the slums of the impoverished and those just getting by, who make
up an overwhelming majority of the four million Alexandrians. It is
not impossible to find imprints of an older, grander city, if you enjoy a
cappuccino and perhaps a honey-soaked pastry at the patisserie and
café Delices on Saad Zaghloul Square, then cross to the marble lobby of
the Cecil Hotel, where Winston Churchill and Somerset Maugham once
stayed, and take the old gated elevator up one floor for a drink at the bar.
[…] Nicholas Kulish p. 76
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