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 city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
.
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
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'' in 2013, described it as "offering an irresistible collection of tomes".
Awards
*2013:
Antoine D'Agata'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 historian ...
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.
People published by Éditions Xavier Barral
References
External links
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Visual arts publishing companies
Book publishing companies of France
French brands
Companies based in Paris
Publishing companies established in 2002
French companies established in 2002