Shunk-Kender Art Through The

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A glorious romp through the international art world of the 1960s and 70sANew York Times Book Review2019 holiday gift guide pickThe photographic duo Shunk and Kender created the defining images of the international avant-garde of the 1960s and 70s. In late 1950s/early 1960s Paris, Shunk and Kender were close to the New Realist artists, and as a result produced what remains probably their most famous photograph:Leap into the Void, the portrait of Yves Klein jumping from a wall. They also photographed Niki de Saint Phalles famous gun performances and the performance dinners of Daniel Spoerri. Established in New York from 1967, Shunk and Kender photographed Andy Warhol and his Factory entourage, recorded the performances of Yayoi Kusama, Trisha Brown and many others, and participated in the avant-garde exhibitions of their time, such asPier 18at the Museum of Modern Art (1971).Much more than mere documentation, Shunk and Kenders photographs were truly collaborative and participatory in spirit, and in many cases now provide the sole evidence of the performances, happenings and other unique events of that time.This gorgeously produced, nearly 500-page volume from Xavier Barral accompanies the first Shunk-Kender retrospective, held at the Centre Pompidou, and is based on a selection of more than 10,000 vintage prints from the Kandinsky Library, which entered into the Pompidous collection in 2008 through a donation from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.Shunk-Kender: Art through the Eye of the Camerais the ultimate account of the heady days of American and European postwar art, and a defining example of that fascinating but rarely acknowledged photographic genre: photography-of-art as art.The German photographerHarry Shunk(1924-2006) and his Hungarian partnerJános Kender(1938-2009) produced some of the most iconic images of postwar European and American art. In 2013, the Museum of Modern Art acquired over 600 works from the Shunk-Kender Photography Collection as a g (...)