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Shunk-Kender - Art Through the Eye of the Camera

Editions Xavier Barral 2019 ISBN 9782365112369 Acqn 29475
Hb 20x26cm 484pp 840 ills £53

From the 1950s to the early 1980s, Harry Shunk and Janos Kender photographed the incredible
effervescence of the artistic avant-garde in Paris and New York. This is the first monograph
dedicated to this remarkable photographic archive with over 800 photographs, several illustrated
essays counting the remarkable history of this body of work composed of over 200 000 vintage,
contact prints as well as negatives. Shunk-Kender had mixed with artists such as John
Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Dan Graham, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg,
Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villegle, Andy Warhol...

Their photographs bear witness to the emergence of new creative acts, from the everyday life of
the studios, the public performances, the world of the galleries, and the milestone openings of
ground-breaking exhibitions. At once major documents on the international avant-gardes of the
1950s to 1970s, these eyewitness images also established specific photographic systems and
devices. They captured faces, creative gestures, the life of the studio, evenings between artists
and collectors, using framings and approaches that constitute photographic oeuvres in their own
right.

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Nuno Andrade – Ginjal

Xavier Barral 2019 ISBN 9782365112192 Acqn 29600
Hb 19x24cm 108pp 55col ills £32

In this first monograph, Nuno Andrade documents the regulars at Floresta do Ginjal, a dance hall
in Lisbon where seniors meet. His portraits using flash take us into the intimacy of these lovers,
dreamers, loners, and seducers. Through an immersive photography, both spontaneous and
sensitive, focusing on details, Nuno Andrade manages to not only document the life of this venue,
but also to render its festive and timeless atmosphere as well as to portray its community of
regulars that keeps it alive, bringing into light their relationships and distinctive features.

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Dominique Teufen - My Travels Through The World On My Copy Machine

Xavier Barral 2019 ISBN 9782365112185 Acqn 29601
Hb 19x24cm 108pp 55ills £32

With the obsessive use of an office photocopier and the skilful appropriation of everyday objects,
Dominique Teufen takes us on an extraordinary journey across the world. In this first monograph,
her unknown, yet familiar landscapes, challenge our senses at every step of the way, amaze us
and nourish our imagination. Photography is not used to render a precise reality but to dupe us
and question our certitudes. The use of familiar references convoke reality and misleads us
ingeniously. By looking closely at these reconstructed worlds, reality becomes an illusion - and
inversely. Some landscapes are so realistic that we can't believe that we have been misled; these
elaborate images challenge our perception of reality and appearance. The narrative and
imaginary aspect questioning the pure vision of documentary photography is still very much in
question today, and this theme is handled by Dominique Teufen with a poetic yet simple
aesthetic, in a both accurate and effective way.

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Akihito Yoshida - Une Double Absense

Xavier Barral 2019 ISBN 9782365112239 Acqn 29604
Pb 26x19cm 140pp 60ills £44

This publication tells the story of young man, Daiki, whose life was entirely dedicated to his
grandmother, Yukimi. Fascinated and deeply touched by this unique relationship, photographer
Akihito Yoshida, cousin of Daiki and also grandchild of Yukimi, decides to narrate this story. He
photographs the daily life and over the years, the rare relationship that develops between the
grandmother and his grandchild: attention, kindness, trust and affection appear in a connection of
extraordinary strength. Yet one day, Daiki disappears without a word. Yukimi falls apart, Daiki's
presence vanishes. What is left of this story, their relationship, their affection? Akihito Yoshida
shows the impermanence of beings, the fragility of ties, the misleading appearances, the haunting
absence of persons that are dear to us.

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Yoshinori Mizutani - Des Oiseaux

Xavier Barral 2019 ISBN 9782365112383 Acqn 29606
Hb 21x26cm 96pp 46col ills £37

A figure of the young Japanese photography scene, Yoshinori Mizutani revisits the urban space
of his city, Tokyo. Steeped in the Japanese pictorial tradition, the photographer explores Tokyo's
daily life and captures scenes that verge on the fantastic. His framings and bright colours confer
an element of otherness to his images. Forms, textures, colourful hues, and depth of field develop
a visual vocabulary that is both poetic and pop. Visions from dreams or nightmares, through their
presence, Yoshinori Mizutani's birds saturate the world of the city and restore its mystery.

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