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THB[PHOTOGRAPHY] Bill Henson: The Light Fades but the Gods Remain
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Bill Henson
The Light Fades but the Gods Remain
Melbourne: Thames & Hudson, 2019.
Deluxe Edition. Signed by Author.
34cm x 28cm. 166 pages, colour illustrations. Lettered cloth, pictorial jacket, cloth slipcase.The deluxe artist's edition with an original signed photograph, and signed by Bill Henson on the half-title, housed in a lettered cloth slipcase. While not stated in the book, personal correspondence with the publisher indicates a print run of 650 copies of the slipcased edition, signed by Henson. (A standard edition, unsigned, without slipcase, was also issued, of which 1,700 copies were printed).
"Over thirty years have passed since Bill Henson made his iconic Untitled 1985/86 series. These mesmerising photographs cast a hazy procession of people and places from Melbourne's suburb of Glen Waverley, interspersed with dreamlike vignettes of Egyptian structures. Now, commissioned by Monash Gallery of Art, Henson has revisited his home suburb to create new work. While these photographs return to Glen Waverley, they show an environment that appears to have slipped out of linear time. Henson's new images are sumptuous and resplendent in their grandeur, offering a view of what is 'just down the street', but seem to come from another age. Together, the two series provide a glimpse into Henson's brilliant mind as he ponders the passing of time. The Light Fades but the Gods Remain, accompanied by an exhibition of both series of work at Monash Gallery of Art, celebrates an extraordinary artist at two stages in his career. The publication includes extracts by various authors who have had an impact on Henson, as well as text by Monash Gallery of Art Senior Curator Pippa Milne" (publisher's blurb)
Fine Condition in the original shrinkwrap.
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