Shunk-Kender

Shunk and Kender were based initially in Paris and later in New York City.{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|title=Shunk-Kender. Art on Camera|url=https://wsimag.com/art/14073-shunk-kender-art-on-camera|date=18 March 2015|website=Wall Street International}} They collaborated with many artists including Yves Klein (on "Leap into the Void" (1960)),{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|title=Exposed: photography's fabulous fakes|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/31/exposed-photographys-fabulous-fakes|date=31 January 2016|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|title=Performing for the Camera review – pain, passport photos and genital panic|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/15/performing-for-the-camera-review-tate-modern-exhibition|date=15 February 2016|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266750|title=Leap into the Void|website=www.metmuseum.org}} Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Eva Hesse, Alexander Calder, Man Ray, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and around 400 others.

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.

When they disbanded in 1973, Kender gave Shunk control of the joint material, and Shunk continued working with photography for a further 30 years.

• Shunk-Kender – Art Through the Eye of the Camera (1957–1983). Paris: Xavier Barral, 2019. {{ISBN|978-2365112369}}.
• Shunk-Kender – L'art sous l'objectif (1957–1982). Paris: Xavier Barral, 2019. {{ISBN|978-2365112147}}.

• Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|title=Art on Camera: Photographs by Shunk-Kender, 1960–1971|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1492|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}

• Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, 2016{{cite news|access-date=2021-07-05|title=Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London|url=https://www.ft.com/content/dc9c9c64-d569-11e5-829b-8564e7528e54|newspaper=Financial Times|date=21 February 2016 |last1=Spence |first1=Rachel }}{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-05|title=Performing for the camera long pre-dates the selfie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/performing-for-the-camera-at-tate-modern-the-urge-to-put-on-a-show-in-front-of-the-lens-predates-the-selfie-a6854031.html|date=6 February 2016|website=The Independent}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-05|title=Performing for the Camera review – pain, passport photos and genital panic|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/15/performing-for-the-camera-review-tate-modern-exhibition|date=15 February 2016|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-05|title=Aesthetica Magazine - Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern|url=https://aestheticamagazine.com/performing-for-the-camera-tate-modern/|website=Aesthetica Magazine}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-05|title=The art of posing: 'Performing for the Camera' at Tate Modern|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/performing-for-the-camera-at-tate-modern|date=18 February 2016|website=Wallpaper*}}

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: Centre Pompidou in Paris (10,000 prints),{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|title=Fonds Harry Shunk et Shunk-Kender|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/archive/zbJxEzQ|website=Centre Pompidou}} 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"),{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|title=Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender Archive (Getty Research Institute)|url=https://www.getty.edu/research/special_collections/notable/shunk_kender.html|website=www.getty.edu}} 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),{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|title=Shunk-Kender Photography Collection|url=https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections/features/christo-jeanne-claude/shunk-kender.html|website=www.nga.gov}} and Tate in the UK (305 works).{{cite web|access-date=2021-07-04|title=Harry Shunk 1924–2006|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/harry-shunk-6362|website=Tate}} {{As of|2013}} the Foundation retained roughly 25,000 Shunk-Kender works.

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