The book Shunk–Kender: Art Through the Eye of the Camera (1957–1983), published by Éditions Xavier Barral on the occasion of the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, is a monument. It first introduces the fraught history of the preservation of the artists’ archives after the death of Harry Shunk in 2006. Secondly, it invites the reader to participate in the birth of a brand new genre: art documentation.
