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November 21, 2011
The Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum at the University of South Australia is exhibiting the early work of Bill Henson ie., work made between 1977 and 1992, and hosting Bill Henson in conversation with Paul Grabowsky.
There were some latter landscapes structured around the evening light, when the last direct rays are about to dissipate over the horizon. These are in the high Romantic sublime tradition--dark and melancholic landscapes of rocky outcrops, monoliths rising dramatically from the ocean:
Bill Henson, untitled Untitled #1, 2009/2010,archival inkjet pigment print
In the conversation with Grabowsky Henson argued that the public sphere had become compressed into black and white with all the shades of grey emptied out--just like modern digital photography.
Art photography's response is to find the spaces to be quiet and contemplative about the object.
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