From Xavier Barral Editions to Atelier EXB
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Presentation of the publisher
Atelier EXB / Xavier Barral Editions was founded in 2002 by Xavier Barral, and taken over by the five members of the team (Jordan Alves, Nathalie Chapuis, Yseult Chehata, Charlotte Debiolles et Perrine Somma). The independent publishing house publishes works that address ” “new forms of photography contemporary art and science”. Their catalogue counts more than 200 works to date.
Graphic designer by training, Xavier Barral (1955-2019) worked in the press as art director (magazine “Impact Médecin”), then collaborated with the magazine “Photographie”, and “L’Autre Journal”, and “L’Evénement du jeudi”. In 1992, he co-founded with his wife Annette Lucas, the visual creation and cultural communication agency Atalante, then in 2002 the publishing house Xavier Barral. The first book published is by Luc Delahaye, “A city”. Then followed many names of photography such as Jane Evelyn Atwood, Antoine d’Agata, Raymond Depardon, Josef Koudelka, Sergio Larrain, Martin Parr, Bernard Plossu, le collectif Tendance floue, etc.
But EXB also offers works by contemporary artists such as Sophie Calle, Annette Messager, as well as works by photographic specialists such as Clément Chéroux ou Diane Dufour.
- Mathieu Pernot, La ruine de sa demeure, 2022
- Matthieu Pernot, Les Gorgan 1995-2015, 2017
- Nicholas Nixon, Une infime distance, 2021
- Atlas Taddao Ando, 2021
- Michael Ackerman, End time city, 2021
- Masahisa Fukase, Sasuke, 2021
- Masahisa Fukase, 2018
- Patrick Zachmann, Voyages de mémoire, 2021
- Patrick Zachmann, So long China, 2016
- Patrick Zachmann, Ma proche banlieue, 2009
- Matt Black, American geography, 2021
- Pentti Sammallahti, Me Kasi, 2021
- Terri Weifencbach, Cloud Physics, 2021
- Marie Bovo, Nocturnes, 2020
- Jon Cazenave, Galerna, 2020
- Franck Horvat, Side walk, 2020
- William Kentridge, The head and the load, 2020
- Sergio Larrain, Londres 1959, 2020
- Sergio Larrain, El rectangulo en la mano, 2018
- Sergio Larrain, 2013
- Collectif : Libertés intérieures : photographie Est-allemande, 2019
- Nuno Andrade, Ginjal, 2019
- Matthias Bruggmann, Un acte d’une indicible violence, 2019
- Ludovic Carème, Brésils Sao Paulo, 2019
- Ludovic Carème, Brésils Amazonie, 2019
- Clément Chéroux, La voix du voir, 2019
- Clément Cheroux, Qu’est-ce que la photographie ?, 2015
- Pierre-Elie de Pibrac, Desmemoria, 2019
- Rodrigo Gomez Rovira, Ultimor Sur, 2019
- Louise Honée, We love where we live, 2019
- Sébastien Lifshitz, L’Inventaire infini, 2019
- Sally Mann, Mille et un passage, 2019
- Charlotte Mano, Thank you mum, 2019
- Wright Morris, L’essence du visible, 2019
- Dominique Teufen, My travels through the world on my copy machine, 2019
- Alain Wuillaume, Coordonnées 72/18, 2019
- Akihito Yoshida, Une Double Absence, 2019
- Antoine Bruy, Scrublands, 2018
- Tina Dassault, Michel Trehet, Archisable, 2018
- Raymond Depardon, USA, 2018
- Raymond Depardon, Méditerranée, 2014
- Zbigniew Dlubak, Un héritier des avant-gardes, 2018
- Petros Efstathiadis, Liparo, 2018
- Jean-Luc Monterosso, La photographie française existe… Je l’ai rencontrée, 2018
- Cas Oorthuys, Cas Oorthuys, 2018
- Xavier Barral, Philippe Séclier, Auto photo, de 1900 à nos jours, 2017
- Kate Barry, The habit of being, 2017
- Rinko Kawauchi, Halo, 2017
- Rinko Kawauchi, Illuminance, 2011
- Josef Koudelka, La fabrique d’exils, 2017
- Josef Koudelka, Wall : Israël Palestine paysage, 2013
- Susan Meiselas, En première ligne, 2017
- Steven Pippin, Aberration optique, 2017
- Edward Burtynsky, Eléments essentiels, 2016
- Sophie Calle, Ainsi de suite, 2016
- Sophie Calle, M’as-tu vue, 2003
- Mark Cohen, Mexico, 2016
- Mark Cohen, Dark knees, 2013
- Diane Dufour (sous la direction de), Images à charge: La construction de la preuve par l’image, 2015
- Stéphane Couturier, 2016
- Raphaël Dallaporta, Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc L’inappropriable, 2016
- Raphaël Dallaporta, Antipersonnel, 2010
- Gérard Petrus Fieret, 2016
- Louis Stettner, Ici Ailleurs, 2016
- Francesca Woodman, devenir un ange, 2016
- Jean-Christophe Bailly, L’Intérieur de la nuit, 2015
- Anna et Bernhard Blume, La photographie transcendantale, 2015
- Anton Corbjin, Anton Corbijn 1-2-3-4, 2015
- Olivier Culmann, The others, 2015
- Pierre de Fenoÿl, Une géographie imaginaire, 2015
- Martin Gusinde, L’Esprit des hommes de la terre de feu, 2015
- Bernard Plossu, Voyages italiens, 2015
- Agnes Varda, Varda Cuba, 2015
- Lendert Blok, Les extravagantes, 2014
- Cédric Delsaux, Zone de repli, 2014
- Cédric Delsaux, Dark Lens, 2011
- Patrick Faigenbaum, L’éclairement, 2014
- Martin Parr, Grand Paris, 2014
- Jean-Claude Pondevine, Ainsi, 2014
- Philippe Seclier, Pier Paolo Pasolini : La longue route de sable, 2014
- Stephen Shore, 2014
- Yuriko Takagi, Sei, 2014
- Antoine d’Agata, Anticorps, 2013
- Emmet Gowin, 2013
- François Hebel et John Fleetwood, Transition paysages d’une société, 2013
- Marloes Krijnen, Le regardeur, 2013
- Françis Rocard, Mars : une exploration photographique, 2013
- Harry Gruyaert, Roots, 2012
- Irene Kung, La ville invisible, 2012
- Marc Riboud, Vers l’Orient, 2012
- Jane Evelyn Atwood, Rue des lombards, 2011
- Dominique Isserman, Laeticia Casta, 2011
- Watabe Yukichi, A criminal investigation, 2011
- Philippe Chancel, Desert spirit: Definitely Dubai, 2010
- Jean Gaumy, D’après nature, 2010
- Guy Bourdin, Polaroids, 2009
- Patrick Faigenbaum, Santulussurgiu, 2008
- Patrick Gries, Evolution, 2008
- Désirée Dolron, Exalation : Gaze : Xteriors, 2006
- Annette Messager, Casino, 2005
- Dominique Darbois, Terre d’enfants, 2004
- Luc Delahaye, Une ville : Le quartier du Mirail à Toulouse, 2003
Collection “Des Oiseaux”
- Roger Ballen, 2022
- Paolo Pellegrin, 2021
- Rinko Kawauchi, 2021
- Albaran Cabrera, 2020
- Yoshinori Mizutani, 2019
- Byung-Hun Min,2019
- Leila Jeffreys, 2019
- Terri Weifenbach, 2019
- Graciela Iturbide, 2019
- Penti Sammallahti, 2019
- Michael Kenna, 2019
Three books to enter the world of EXB
Luc Delahaye, une ville: le quartier du Mirail à Toulouse, 2003
In this book, the author questions the urbanist utopia that was the Mirail district in Toulouse at the beginning, described in the 1960s by the city’s mayor as ‘ an avant-garde highly humanistic operation” His photographic corpus, accompanied by interviews with the inhabitants of this now underprivileged suburban neighbourhood, was made in 2001, and reflects the failure of the project. The book features images of interiors and the concrete environment that has decayed over the years, punctuated by the words of the residents, and enhanced by archives of the urban planning competition that led to the construction.
Patrick Zachmann, Voyages de mémoire, 2021
This monograph summarising the artistic career ofPatrick Zachmann (born 1955) was published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris in 2021. The book retraces his artistic period between 1970 and 2015, through a dozen series: on Judaism (“investigation of identity”), then comes “investigations of memory”, with in particular a trip made to Auschwitz in 2000 (but also to Hungary or Ukraine, etc). The book ends with the “journey backwards”, a quest to retrace the past of his mother, born in Oujda, Morocco. A form of introspection which at the same time speaks of our collective history.
Mathieu Pernot, La ruine de sa demeure, 2022
Mathieu Pernot (b. 1970), winner of the 2019 HCB Prize, proposes a journey to Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, inspired by his grandfather’s travel album (which can be seen at the beginning of the book). In 1926, the latter had made his “Grand Tour” to the Middle East, an episode symbolising a long journey made in the 18th and 19th centuries by the upper classes of European society to further their education. Mathieu Pernot develops a form of documentary photography in the image of these three countries ravaged by modern wars, and offers an aesthetic of ruin, affecting both contemporary buildings and thousand-year-old edifices. The book ends with photographs of his family found in the ruins of Mosul.