Beat Streuli’s most recent photographs, made in New York during a long stay in 1994, underscore the particularity of that city, which more than any other in the world is marked by a constant flux of bodies in the streets, bodies that form part of a collective but remain seemingly unaware of each other. Jean Baudrillard described New York as “the city [that] never empties. Everyone is in some way assigned to a stage set. It is practically useless to question the destiny of all the accelerating particles. This absolute mobility is a prodigious phenomenon. This phenomenon almost constitutes a