Untitled 1985/86
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few photographers have captured the liminal boundary between darkness and light — between innocence and experience — with the haunting precision of Bill Henson. Untitled 1985/86 presents a landmark body of work from one of Australia's most celebrated and internationally recognised photographers, documenting a series of images produced during the mid-1980s that cemented Henson's reputation as a master of atmospheric, psychologically charged visual narratives. Set against the brooding, cinematic backdrops that are Henson's hallmark, the photographs chronicle adolescent figures suspended in twilight spaces — physical and emotional — where identity, mortality, and beauty exist in uneasy tension. Henson's practice is deeply rooted in the Romantic tradition, drawing upon the visual language of Caravaggio and Caspar David Friedrich to construct images of extraordinary painterly depth. His work argues, compellingly, that photography can transcend documentary function to become pure lyrical expression — a position this volume illustrates with quiet, relentless force. Published in 1987, this catalogue stands as an essential document of a pivotal moment in contemporary Australian art, and leaves the viewer with a question that lingers long after the final page: where, precisely, does beauty end and the sublime begin?
Author: Bill Henson
Format: Paperback
Published: 1987, Realies (real es)
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few photographers have captured the liminal boundary between darkness and light — between innocence and experience — with the haunting precision of Bill Henson. Untitled 1985/86 presents a landmark body of work from one of Australia's most celebrated and internationally recognised photographers, documenting a series of images produced during the mid-1980s that cemented Henson's reputation as a master of atmospheric, psychologically charged visual narratives. Set against the brooding, cinematic backdrops that are Henson's hallmark, the photographs chronicle adolescent figures suspended in twilight spaces — physical and emotional — where identity, mortality, and beauty exist in uneasy tension. Henson's practice is deeply rooted in the Romantic tradition, drawing upon the visual language of Caravaggio and Caspar David Friedrich to construct images of extraordinary painterly depth. His work argues, compellingly, that photography can transcend documentary function to become pure lyrical expression — a position this volume illustrates with quiet, relentless force. Published in 1987, this catalogue stands as an essential document of a pivotal moment in contemporary Australian art, and leaves the viewer with a question that lingers long after the final page: where, precisely, does beauty end and the sublime begin?