The art publisher Xavier Barral died in the night from Saturday to Sunday at his paris home, has announced Monday, the publishing house, eponymous, which he founded in 2002. Driven by a curiosity without limits, this great traveller has multiplied artistic experiences in the course of his career, working as a graphic designer, press photographer, and art director of magazines ( The the Other Journal , Photograph …). Publishing books paper concludes, to impose it in the art world as a major figure in the photograph.

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Born on 22 November 1955, Xavier Barral grows near the Observatory of Meudon, near paris, before studying at the École supérieure d’arts graphiques Penninghen in Paris, where he met the photographer Robert Doisneau and the designer Polish Roman Cieslewicz. In 2002, encouraged by the editor, Hervé de La Martinière, as well as by Daniel Buren and a few friends authors, he created the Éditions Xavier Barral, and published Word of Daniel Buren. The first in a line of prestigious, among which hast thou seen , designed with Sophie Calle in 2003, Depardon USA in 2018, books dedicated to the work of the photographer chilean Sergio Larrain in 2013 and japanese artist Masahisa Fukase in 2018. The motto of his house: “Every book is a singular object”.

“It was the passion of the beautiful”

“It was wonderful for an author to have his complicity to build things that last, in particular, the books which must remain after us,” says Release Raphaël Dallaporta, photographer to many collaborations with the editor. “[He] knew as a person the ratio of the ink and paper.”

On Twitter, the minister of Culture, Franck Riester has also welcomed the work of the editor: “Xavier Barral had the passion for the beautiful. He liked that, which is singular for better make it universal. Editor essential, he knew, by his creative choices, pay tribute to the artists and their universe”.

Xavier Barral was not insensitive to the science: after the publication of Evolution in 2007, he himself had selected 200 images of the space probe american MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) to Mars , a book, a haunting that came out in 2013. “The scientists are not looking at the same things,” he explained then to the AFP . In 2016, he had also co-edited with Paris Photo, a book chronicling two decades of activity of the international fair, with a sixty contributions of the major actors of the photographic world, such as David Lynch, Martin Parr, Sophie Calle, or Juergen Teller.

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63 years Old, Xavier Barral “just-print the Comet, The journey of Rosetta ,” said the publishing house. Dedicated to the probe that has managed the feat to enter orbit of the comet nicknamed “Tchoury” and stay there for eighteen months, the work place, by its proposal incredible images of planets, a worthy successor to Mars .

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