Éditions Xavier Barral is a French book publisher specialising in photography, architecture, contemporary art and science. It was founded in 2002 by Xavier Barral and based in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

Martin Parr Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in p ...

has said of Éditions Xavier Barral that "Every book published yBarral has a specific problem to which it brings an original solution tailored to this project and to no other". Cheryl Newman, writing in ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fo ...

'' in 2013, described it as "offering an irresistible collection of tomes".

Awards

*2013:

Antoine D'Agata Antoine d'Agata (; born 1961) is a French photographer and film director. His work deals with topics that are often considered taboo, such as addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, and prostitution. D'Agata is a full member of Magnum Photo ...

's ''Anticorps'' (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2013), won the

Rencontres d'Arles The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historia ...

Author’s Book Award. *2015: ''Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence'' (Xavier Barral and Le Bal, 2015) won Photography Catalogue of the Year,

Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards is a yearly photography book award that is given jointly by Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation. It is announced at the Paris Photo fair and was established in 2012. The categories are First P ...

People published by Éditions Xavier Barral

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Editions Xavier Barral Visual arts publishing companies Book publishing companies of France French brands Companies based in Paris Publishing companies established in 2002 2002 establishments in France