Le Grand Jeu
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Time in the city: Walking the Night
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOver the course of two nights, Manhattan’s Lower East Side becomes both setting and subject in time in the city, a photo zine shot entirely by New York–based photographer Alain Levitt. Reduced to streets, faces, movements, and pauses, the neighborhood appears as a sequence of fleeting moments, fragments of a city experienced at walking pace, […]
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Rap Monde & Rap Styles – Global Sounds
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAt a time when rap is global yet deeply rooted in local scenes, these two books offer a clear way to navigate its complexity. From Chicago and Atlanta to London, Paris, and Marseille, rap continues to evolve through cities, sounds, and cultural exchanges that shape contemporary music worldwide. Published by Combo Éditions within the Music […]
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Loopera: A Life in the Margins
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome stories survive not through archives, but through the scenes that carried them. Active between Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, Liza (1958–2001) was a defining yet often overlooked figure of European electronic and hardcore culture. From classical training to tape experimentation, from New Wave and EBM to rave and hardcore, her trajectory unfolded within underground […]
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Bordeaux90 — Birth of a Writing Scene
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBefore becoming a movement, a scene often begins with a few teenagers testing the city. In the early 1990s, Bordeaux saw the emergence of a graffiti scene shaped by freedom, intuition, and close contact with the urban environment. Bordeaux 90, Naissance d’une scène graff looks back at that decisive decade, when a local visual language […]
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Dérives Picturales : Anti-Style Practices
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceDérives picturales brings together graffiti works that step outside established codes. Photographed mainly in Paris, with incursions into Lille, Nantes, Brussels, Berlin, and Athens, the fanzine traces an alternative urban landscape shaped by unusual forms and visual languages. Driven by a passion for graffiti and modern and contemporary art, the author focuses on so-called “anti-style” […]