Shunk-Kender is the artistic collaboration of Harry Shunk and János Kender, who worked together largely from 1958 to 1973.[1][2]

Artistic duo

Shunk and Kender were based initially in Paris and later in New York City.[3] They collaborated with many artists including Yves 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

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

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

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 Pompidou in Paris (10,000 prints),[13] Getty Research Institute in 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 Art in New York City, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (around 2,300 images documenting Christo and Jeanne-Claude and their epic installation works),[15] and Tate in the UK (305 works).[16] As of 2013 the Foundation retained roughly 25,000 Shunk-Kender works.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Loos, Ted (18 December 2013). "Art-Scene Glimpses, Lost Then Found". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. ^ Vartanian, Hrag (20 December 2013). "Two Photographers Emerge from the Shadows with Over 400 Artist Portraits". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Shunk-Kender. Art on Camera". Wall Street International. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Exposed: photography's fabulous fakes". The Guardian. 31 January 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Performing for the Camera review – pain, passport photos and genital panic". The Guardian. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Leap into the Void". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  8. ^ Spence, Rachel (21 February 2016). "Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London". Financial Times. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Performing for the camera long pre-dates the selfie". The Independent. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Performing for the Camera review – pain, passport photos and genital panic". The Guardian. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Aesthetica Magazine - Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  12. ^ "The art of posing: 'Performing for the Camera' at Tate Modern". Wallpaper*. 18 February 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Fonds Harry Shunk et Shunk-Kender". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  14. ^ "Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender Archive (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  15. ^ "Shunk-Kender Photography Collection". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  16. ^ "Harry Shunk 1924–2006". Tate. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
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