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