Shunk-Kender
Shunk-Kenderis the artistic collaboration ofHarry ShunkandJános Kender,who worked together largely from 1958 to 1973.[1][2]
Artistic duo
[edit]ShunkandKenderwere based initially in Paris and later in New York City.[3]They collaborated with many artists includingYves Klein(on "Leap into the Void" (1960)),[4][5][6]Robert Rauschenberg,Merce Cunningham,Eva Hesse,Alexander Calder,Man Ray,Christo and Jeanne-Claude,and around 400 others.[1]
They "were hired as a team by artists and dealers to record events from routine gallery openings to major conceptual happenings." They attributed their work to the pair of them rather than individually.[1]
Disbanding
[edit]When they disbanded in 1973, Kender gave Shunk control of the joint material, and Shunk continued working with photography for a further 30 years.[1]
Publications
[edit]- Shunk-Kender – Art Through the Eye of the Camera (1957–1983).Paris:Xavier Barral,2019.ISBN978-2365112369.
- Shunk-Kender – L'art sous l'objectif (1957–1982).Paris: Xavier Barral, 2019.ISBN978-2365112147.
Exhibitions
[edit]Solo exhibitions
[edit]- Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971,Museum of Modern Art,New York, 2015[7]
Group exhibitions
[edit]Collections
[edit]The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation donated the Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender Photography Collection—more than 200,000 prints, negatives and other photographic material—to a consortium of five art institutions:[1]Centre Pompidouin Paris (10,000 prints),[13]Getty Research Institutein Los Angeles ( "183,000 items, including a near-complete set of 19,000 prints, 12,000 contact sheets, 126,000 negatives, and 26,000 color transparencies and slides" ),[14]Museum of Modern Artin New York City,National Gallery of Artin Washington, D.C. (around 2,300 images documenting Christo and Jeanne-Claude and their epic installation works),[15]andTatein the UK (305 works).[16]As of 2013[update]the Foundation retained roughly 25,000 Shunk-Kender works.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abcdefLoos, Ted (18 December 2013)."Art-Scene Glimpses, Lost Then Found".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^Vartanian, Hrag (20 December 2013)."Two Photographers Emerge from the Shadows with Over 400 Artist Portraits".Hyperallergic.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Shunk-Kender. Art on Camera".Wall Street International.18 March 2015.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Exposed: photography's fabulous fakes".The Guardian.31 January 2016.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Performing for the Camera review – pain, passport photos and genital panic".The Guardian.15 February 2016.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Leap into the Void".www.metmuseum.org.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971".The Museum of Modern Art.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^Spence, Rachel (21 February 2016)."Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London".Financial Times.Retrieved5 July2021.
- ^"Performing for the camera long pre-dates the selfie".The Independent.6 February 2016.Retrieved5 July2021.
- ^"Performing for the Camera review – pain, passport photos and genital panic".The Guardian.15 February 2016.Retrieved5 July2021.
- ^"Aesthetica Magazine - Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern".Aesthetica Magazine.Retrieved5 July2021.
- ^"The art of posing: 'Performing for the Camera' at Tate Modern".Wallpaper*.18 February 2016.Retrieved5 July2021.
- ^"Fonds Harry Shunk et Shunk-Kender".Centre Pompidou.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender Archive (Getty Research Institute)".www.getty.edu.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Shunk-Kender Photography Collection".www.nga.gov.Retrieved4 July2021.
- ^"Harry Shunk 1924–2006".Tate.Retrieved4 July2021.