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Article: Naked Youth.(Bill Henson)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Until recently, being an American admirer of the photographer Bill Henson was a lonely and rather painstaking chore. Apart from a small survey of his work at the Denver Art Museum in 1990 an a few photographs included in a 1984 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition of Australia art, he has been almost impossible to find in the Unite States, less unknown than antiknown--a sub-subcult figure even within circles devoted to contemporary photography. Given that his work has been a staple of the European art world since 1981 and that it occupied an entire pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale, Henson's invisibility is bizarre enough. But when you consider that his photographs ...
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Article: NSW: Henson work sells to art broker at auction
AAP General News (Australia);
May 30, 2008 ;
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... ... has paid more than $5,000 for a Bill Henson photograph of a young girl sleeping ... as unqualified to pass comment as Bill Henson would be to comment on the budget ... very helpful, but I think he (Henson) can rest assured that everyone ...
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