The new arrival in the This is not a map collection has just been released! It is devoted to the lubavitcher neighborhoods of Brooklyn in New York, photographed by Sacha Goldberger. This collection of useless maps offers a photographic journey via the encounter of a photographer and a location.
770 : Loubavitchs de Brooklyn
This series explores the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic movement (also known as Chabad) around its New York nerve centre, the 770, the synagogue of the great Rabbi Mena’hem Mendel Schneerson, the movement’s spiritual guide. The goal was to challenge preconceived notions surrounding the “men in black”, often seen as extremists while in fact differing from other orthodox movements by its openness to the outside world and its desire to respect God’s commandments in a spirit of joy, enthusiasm, generosity and selflessness. Sacha Goldberger and his co-author Ben Bensimon say: “Through these pictures, we wanted to take a positive, poetic, spiritual and sometimes funny look at the Jewish religion. By taking pictures of these men and women we were able to observe their ability to laugh at themselves and their capacity to share joy.”
BOOK
770 : Loubavitchs de Brooklyn
Sacha Goldberger
This is not a map
Edited by Poetry Wanted
folded 11cm x 25cm / unfolded 100cm x 155cm
http://www.thisisnotamap.com/products/brooklyn
EXHIBITION
This is not a map mais une exposition photographique
Until March 18th, 2016
Superette
104, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière
75010 Paris
France
