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Bill Henson (born 7 October 1955) Photographer

Bill Henson

Bill Henson (born 7 October 1955) is an Australian contemporary art photographer.

Art

Henson has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. His current practice involves holding one exhibition in Australia every two years, and up to three overseas exhibitions each year.
The use of chiaroscuro is common throughout his works, through underexposure and adjustment in printing. His photographs' use of bokeh is intended to give them a painterly atmosphere. The work is often presented as diptychs, triptychs and in other groupings, and the exhibitions are specifically curated by Henson to reflect a sense of musicality.
Duality is a recurring theme of Henson's work, often in combination with adolescent subjects.He frequently employs a flattened perspective through the use of telephoto lenses. His works are often in the form of staged tableaux in which faces of the subjects are often blurred or partly shadowed and do not directly face the viewer.
Henson states that he is not interested in a political or sociological agenda.

Life and influences

Raised in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Henson studied Visual Arts and Design 1974–1975 at Prahran College of Advanced Education where Athol Shmith was head of the Photography program and John Cato and Paul Cox were lecturers. He did not complete the diploma, but the nineteen-year-old Henson's work was promoted by Shmith to Jennie Boddington, inaugural Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria with the result that Henson's first solo show was exhibited there in 1975.
From his period as a student until its closure in 1980, he worked at The Bookshop of Margareta Webber 343 Little Collins Street Melbourne, which specialised in luxurious books on ballet, dance and the visual arts. Leaving the bookshop, he traveled and photographed in Eastern Europe. He taught briefly at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. The long-term relationship of Henson with Luminist Melbourne painter Louise Hearman, who met in 1981 at the Victorian College of Arts, has been noted as mutually influential on their art. Hearman won the 2014 Moran portrait prize, Australia's richest at $A150,000, with her double portrait of Bill Henson.

Controversies

Images seized

On 22 May 2008, the opening night of Bill Henson's 2007–2008 exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Paddington, Sydney, was canceled after eight individual complaints were made to Police voicing concerns about an email invitation from the Gallery to a "Private View" that depicted photographs of a nude 13-year-old girl. Hetty Johnston, a child protection advocate also lodged a complaint with the New South Wales police. On the same day a Sydney Morning Herald columnist, Miranda Devine, had also written a scathing article in response to viewing the email invitation, which precipitated heated talk-back and media discussion throughout the day. In the process of removing the images from the Gallery, Police found more photographs of naked children on exhibition among various large format photographs of nonfigurative subjects, which they later sought to examine for the purposes of determining their legal status under the NSW Crimes Act and child protection legislation. Following discussions with the Gallery and a decision by Henson, the Gallery canceled the opening and postponed the show.
It was announced on 23 May that a number of the images in the exhibition had been seized by police local Area Commander Alan Sicard, with the intention of charging Bill Henson, the Gallery, or both with "publishing an indecent article" under the Crimes Act. The seized images were also removed from the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery website, where the remainder of the series can now be viewed online.
The situation provoked a national debate on censorship. In a televised interview, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stated that he found the images "absolutely revolting" and that they had "no artistic merit". These views swiftly drew censure from members of the 'creative stream' who attended the recent 2020 Summit convened by Rudd, led by actor Cate Blanchett.
On 5 June 2008 the former director of the National Gallery of Australia, Betty Churcher, said it was "not surprising" that the New South Wales Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) would announce its official recommendation that no charges be laid regarding the Sydney Roslyn Oxley9 gallery's collection of photographs by artist Bill Henson. Ms Churcher said it would have been ridiculous to drag the case through the courts:
I'm very pleased that the public prosecutor has decided that it's likely to end the debacle because they always do, as soon as you take art into court it never works ... The court is not the place to decide matters of art.
On 6 June 2008 it was reported in The Age that police would not prosecute Bill Henson over his photographs of naked teenagers, after they were declared "mild and justified" and given a PG rating by the Australian Classification Board, suggesting viewing by children under the age of 16 is suitable with parental guidance.
Australian scholar Niall Lucy criticized Devine's response to Henson's art in his 2010 book Pomo Oz: Fear and Loathing Down Under. David Marr's book about the 2008 incident The Henson case was listed for the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Selection of models

On 4 October 2008, Henson became the center of controversy again after it was revealed in extracts of The Henson case that in 2007 he visited St Kilda Park Primary School to pick out potential models for his artwork. Henson was allowed entry into the school and escorted by principal Sue Knight around the school grounds and picked two children he thought would be suitable – one child, a boy, was later photographed after his parents were approached by the school on behalf of the artist.
An investigation into the matter was launched by the Department of Education on 6 October 2008. The investigation found that the principal had complied with departmental policy, and had no case to answer.

Exhibitions (selected)

A few of his exhibitions:
1975
  • Bill Henson, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1981
  • Bill Henson Photographs, Photographers' Gallery, London
1985
  • Bill Henson, Untitled 1983/84, Pinacotheca, Melbourne, Australia, July
1989
  • Bill Henson Fotografien, Museum Moderner Kunst, Palais Liechtenstein, Wien
1990
  • Bill Henson Photographs, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
1993
  • Bill Henson, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1998
  • Bill Henson, ACP Galerie Peter Schuengel, Salzburg
2004
  • Presence 3: Bill Henson, The Speed Art Museum, Kentucky
2006
  • Bill Henson, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008
  • Bill Henson, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, United States
  • Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010
  • Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011
  • Bill Henson, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2012
  • Diane Arbus, Bill Henson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, United States
  • Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Travelled over Australia
2013
  • Cloud Landscapes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • The Youth Code!, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Books

Major monographs on the artist's work:
  • Bill Henson ; edited by Martin Jaeggi and Walter Keller (2002). Lux et Nox Zurich, Switzerland : Scalo; 2nd ed. London:Thames & Hudson (2009)
  • Henson, Bill, (2005) Mnemosyne. Zurich : Scalo in association with Art Gallery of New South Wales.
   Untitled 1974
1974
   Untitled 1974
1974

  Untitled 1974
1974
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1974
   Untitled 1974
1974

  Untitled 1975
1975
  Untitled 1975
1975
Untitled 1975
1975
  Untitled 1975
1975
  Untitled 1975
1975
 Untitled 1976-
1976– 

 Untitled 1976-
1976–


 Untitled 1976-
1976– 

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1976


 Untitled 1976-
1976– 

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1976


  Untitled 1976-
1976– 

 Untitled 1976-
1976

 Untitled 1976-
1976–

 Untitled 1976-
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Untitled Sequence 1979, from the series Untitled Sequence 1979

 Untitled 1987/88



 



Paris Opera Project, from the series Paris Opera Project
1990-1991
 1992-1993 
 1992-1993



1994-1995 

Kindertotenlieder Image #2
1976 – 2016
Archival inkjet pigment print, framed
Image size: 44.8 x 37 cm Framed size: 69 x 60 cm
Edition of 10


Kindertotenlieder Image #5
1976 – 2016
Archival inkjet pigment print, framed
Image size: 44.8 x 37 cm Framed size: 69 x 60 cm
Edition of 10

Kindertotenlieder Image #6
1976 – 2016
Archival inkjet pigment print, framed
Image size: 44.8 x 37 cm Framed size: 69 x 60 cm
Edition of 10


Kindertotenlieder Image #9
1976 – 2016
Archival inkjet pigment print, framed
Image size: 44.8 x 37 cm Framed size: 69 x 60 cm
Edition of 10

 Kindertotenlieder Image #14
1976 – 2016
Archival inkjet pigment print, framed
Image size: 44.8 x 37 cm Framed size: 69 x 60 cm
Edition of 10

 Kindertotenlieder Image #17
1976 – 2016
Archival inkjet pigment print, framed
Image size: 44.8 x 37 cm Framed size: 69 x 60 cm
Edition of 10

Kindertotenlieder Image #19
1976 – 2016
Archival inkjet pigment print, framed
Image size: 44.8 x 37 cm Framed size: 69 x 60 cm
Edition of 10


Kindertotenlieder Image #27
1976 – 2016
Archival inkjet pigment print, framed
Image size: 44.8 x 37 cm Framed size: 69 x 60 cm
Edition of 10

 Untitled 1992/93
1992-1993

 Untitled 1998/99
1998-2000

 Untitled 1997/2000
1997-2000

Untitled 2005/06
2005-2006 

 Untitled 2005/06
2005-2006

 Untitled 2005/06
2005-2006

Untitled 2007/08
2007-2008


 Untitled 2007/08
2007-2008

Untitled 2009/10
2009-2010 

Untitled 2009/10
2009-2010 



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NGV Festival of Photography - Bill Henson on Vimeo

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15 mar 2017 - Caricato da NGV
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9 mar 2017 - Caricato da Port Film Co-op
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Bill Henson - NGV Festival of Photography (subtitled) on Vimeo

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15 mar 2017 - Caricato da NGV
The solo survey exhibition, Bill Henson, will showcase recent works by the Australian photographer. The ...

Bill Henson - Twilight Zones - Photography - YouTube

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20 apr 2014 - Caricato da E ī h w a z
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The Art of Bill Henson - Obsessions - documentary - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCo6BJe4eY
4 apr 2017 - Caricato da Port Film Co-op
Very good documentary about photographer Bill Henson.

Bill Henson - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsjDuglq5oQ
24 set 2014 - Caricato da National Gallery of Australia
Hints of Life - documentary film about fine-art photographer/urban explorer Rebecca Bathory - Duration: 29:19 ..

Bill Henson's photographic work seized from gallery by police - 80 - ABC

www.abc.net.au/archives/80days/stories/2012/01/.../3415368.htm
19 gen 2012
When police seized key works from photographer Bill Henson's 2008 Sydney show after complaints it ...



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