Cécile Camart New Burlesque or the veil of pretence The specificity of the burlesque world, as it is revisited by contemporary American performers and explored by Katharina Bosse, is by nature a paradox: one of rerouting and defocusing, sometimes to infinity. The key to this long series of photographs may lie here, reached via a preliminary etymological exploration of the notion of "burlesque".   While Katharina Bosse's undertaking has its origins in a long journey across America between 2001 and 2002 to meet each woman, the nature of her photographic "intervention" cannot be reduced to a strictly documentary or sociological dimension. Her portraits of burlesque dancers, as we will see, reveal a form of sublimated desire underlying this systematic—and ironic—attitude of opposition to established norms, in order to better introduce the disturbing specificity of the photographed subject. New Burlesque thus functions as a system of subverting modernist codes. NEXT PAGE >