Bill Henson

About this book

"Bill Henson is an artist of ferocious integrity, a photographer of the human condition and an experimenter of remarkable skill and conviction. Once the curtain has lifted and we glimpse into his magical world - a distant world of romance and exquisite beauty which the artist seems to somehow have dreamt rather than visited - we find a space veiled in a dim and mystic light, haunted with the ghosts of pretty young ladies and lovely knights, of foreboding buildings and desolate roads, of menacing wooded landscapes with vague but sinister implications. Teenagers seem lost in an obscure sullenness, their darkest angst tinged with melancholy. People and places are juxtaposed between loneliness and desire, as if these youths are drifting mindlessly, perhaps to their destruction."--Pavement Magazine.