Bill Henson (50 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, slipcased accordion-style hardcover, has a tiny bump to the upper fore corner of the back cover, otherwise a bright, tight, Near Fine copy housed in a Very Good+ slipcase, which has slight bumps to the corners, and faint rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the panels. Miniature book, measures 2.5" x 2.5".…

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original announcement card for an exhibition of work by Bill Henson held at Robert Miller Gallery, NYC, October 16 - November 15, 2008. Stiff card, printed both sides; 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Condition: Fine. Laid-in is the gallery press release. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Deutscher Fine Art Melbourne 1989 VG (illus soft cover sl rubbed and worn).

Castlemaine : Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 2016. Oblong quarto, wrappers, pp. [x]; 8 colour plates with text; [6]. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Catalogue for exhibition Bill Herson: Landscapes held at Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum from 30 April to 30 June 2016.…

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original announcement card for an exhibition of work by Bill Henson held at Robert Miller Gallery, NYC, April 27 - June 3, 2006. Stiff thin card, folded once to 4 pages; 2 color illustrations; 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Condition: Fine. Laid-in is the gallery press release. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original announcement card for an exhibition of work by Bill Henson held at Robert Miller Gallery, NYC, February 12 - March 13, 2004. The artist's first show at the gallery. Stiff, plastic-covered card, folded once to 4 pages; 2 color illustrations; 7.5 x 5.5 inches. Condition: Fine. Laid-in is the gallery press release. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…

Softcover with printed white dustjacket, 56 pages; in English and Italian; very good condition; light rubbing and some scuffs to dj; small bend to upper right corner tip of pages; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine.

4to, 103pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Introduction by David Malouf.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. Good condition hardcover. Dust jacket shows some scratching and small dents to the front cover, with minor creasing to the bottom edge and some peeling toward the lower edge. Sun fading to the spine. Blue cloth boards are clean. Pages crisp and clean throughout. ALL ORDERS TO THE EU OVER ?150 REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE TO COVER IMPORT COSTS. Import costs are generally 6-15% of the order value. We will contact you before accepting the order. Orders will be rejected if the additional charge is not accepted. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. moderate wear moderate blemishes or marks no underlining or highlighting.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This copy is in excellent condition with only some very minor edgewear to the covers. It has been signed by the previous owner on the title page.

Condition: gut. 2017. Bill Henson In englischer Sprache. pages.

Hardcover. dj. 1st. Green cloth quarto, 501 pages in dust-jacket, color & b/w images. Dark, but not depressing, material. Boards faintly bowed, all pages without flaw. Dust-jacket shows minor shelf-wear, rubbing, softness around the edges and a few scrapes but nothing torn. The book accompanied a 2005 exhibition in Sydney & Melbourne. Weighs mroe than 8 lbs. From the collection of the late Peter Schjeldahl, this book survived a 2019 fire at his St. Mark's Place (NY) flat.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Very large hardback w/ jacket; unmarked; no be;nt/torn pp.; jacket fine. Does not ship overseas.

Hardcover. Square Quarto. Hardcover. Green cloth binding in illustrated jacket. 501 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. Henson's compelling images invoke the descriptive powers of baroque and brooding. His images, forever nocturnal, are dark, sonorous and laden with seductive threat. "This publication accompanies the exhibition Bill Henson, 8 January-3 April, 2005, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; 23 April-10 July 2005, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne"--Colophon./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 500-501). VG. Bottom edge of text block has a little soiling. Jacket has light rubbing and scuffing, otherwise clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Like new condition with dust jacket. The dust jacket has some minor shelf wear. The very last page ( black filler) has a flattened crease. Will be shipped in a padded box. Book dimensions 17X11X1 inch.

Paperback. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Very Good+ paperback with a small light crease to one corner of the back cover, a touch of wear to the tips, a touch of surface rubbing, and two pencil-ghosts of a price to the half title. A nice copy overall. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Early exhibition catalogue with work from Henson's crowds series and his young nudes juxtaposed with Baroque architectural images. Photographs by Bill Henson; essays by David Malouf and Peter Schjeldahl. SIGNED BY HENSON on the title page; no inscription. 103 pages; 67 duo-toned b&w and color plates; 8.75 x 10.25 inches. Caption list, bilbiography, exhibitions list. …

Oversize hardcover with dustjacket, 176 pages; very good condition, light rubbing and light scratches to dj; overall very clean and crisp; no internal marks. Shipping will be extra for this item.

Hardcover. Condition: fine/near fine. First Scalo Edition. Landscape folio. 175 color photographs. A fine copy in dust jacket. Faint crease to back of dust jacket. and light crease near bottom edge of front of jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 200 pages. Published in 2002. Collection of nude-cum-landscape color photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. A stunningly beautiful production by Bill Henson, Martin Jaeggi, and Walter Keller: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with black titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Bill Henson. Contribution by the avant-garde writer Dennis Cooper. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Bill Henson's "Lux Et Nox". A sequence of photographs of naked couples making love brilliantly juxtaposed with urban nighttime landscapes. The "lux" - light - of the title refers to photography itself. The metaphor of night - for sex and intimacy as well as loneliness and desolation - endows the sequence with a "life-versus-death" significance rarely seen in photography. You will not restlessly flip through but carefully linger over each page. The sequence is poetic; its contemplative effect is powerful. "Bill Henson is a passionate and visionary explorer of twilight zones, of the ambiguous spaces that exist between day and night, nature and civilization, youth and adulthood, male and female. Continues the tradition of Romantic literature and painting in our post-Industrial Age. The rich chiaroscuro, the oscillating light, and the masterful composition of his photographs map enigmatic states escape rationalism's iron grip" (Dennis Cooper). Bill Henson's night-universe is more mythical than real. But there is nothing polemical much less political ("reason versus emotion", "Nature versus Culture") about his art, not in the terms that Dennis Cooper proposes. That Henson used ordinary-looking, "relatable" kid-models (instead of Miss Universe and Physique types) makes his self-created universe more, not less, otherworldly, unattainable, and desirable. What do poets (and psychologists) say about desire? We desire what we see everyday. For better or for worse, some of these things are the products of the post-industrial, global consumerism that Cooper opposes. Together with Trent Parke, Henson has put Australia on the map as a vital center of art photography, that is to say, of the most serious and ambitious contemporary art itself, which has become more, not less, photographically-based. An absolute "must-have" title for Bill Henson collectors. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 125 color plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO TRENT PARKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 3908247551. no.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. SIGNED by photographer to title page. With a short story by Robert Walser ('Balloon Journey') as way of introduction. White limp card wrapps, lettered in black to front and spine. In black dust jacket printed to both sides. Slightly marked to fore-edge of text block and leading corners of first and last leaf. Spine ever so slightly concave. Otherwise fine. *** A selection of photographs by Australian photographer Bill Henson taken in 1985 when he was 33 years old. Shot at dawn and dusk, in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, and in the deserts of Egypt, Henson creates an extraordinary narrative, combining portraits of young adolescent boys and girls with dark, looming land- and cityscapes. High-quality reproductions. One of Benson's most sought-after works. Signed by Author(s).…

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Bill Henson: Photographs 1974-1984. With contributions by David Malouf & Peter Schjeldahl. Scarce exhibition catalogue for controversial photographer Bill Henson. The exhibition was held 14 June - 7 July 1989, at Deutscher Fine Art Gallery, Gertrude Street, Fitzroy (an inner-city suburb of Melbourne). Contains 67 photographs (some diptych & triptych) by Bill Henson, featuring young nudes (both male & female), along with other Henson images, mostly of human subjects or architectural features. With introductory essays by both David Malouf & Peter Schjeldahl. Catalogue details of all photographs include title, date, type of photograph, & size. Includes lists of individual exhibitions, group exhibitions, collections, plus selected bibliography. Catalogue by Karyn Lovegrove. Design by David Sampietro. Contains nudity. Bill Henson was born in 1955 in Melbourne, Australia. Bound in publisher's original colour pictorial wraps. Slight handling wear with mild surface wear to covers, otherwise a very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 103pp. RARE. …

Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine clothbound hardcover in a Fine dust jacket protected by a clear removable mylar cover. One page has a little light creasing to one corner. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A monograph on the work of Australian photographer Bill Henson. SIGNED BY HENSON and inscribed. 182 pages; 125 full-page, color photographic plates; 17 x 11.5 inches. Gorgeous reproductions. LAID-IN is a color, 7.5 x 5 inch, fold out, heavy, glossy-stock gallery announcement for a show at the Robert Miller Gallery in 2004, which features two images. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.…

Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Near Fine cloth-bound hardcover with light rubbing to the extremities and along the bottom edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear; none of the gatefolds are dog eared. A nice copy. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. An early monograph on the work of Australian photographer Bill Henson: The first section is a sequence of crowd scenes, and the second consists of images made in and around European museums and palaces (namely Versailles) contrasted with dirty, nude young women and men. Contains numerous bi-fold pages that create tryptichs when opened. Photographs by Bill Henson; essays by David Malouf and Michael Heyward. SIGNED BY HENSON on the half-title and inscribed. 119 pages with 12 gatefolds; over 100 duo-toned b&w plates; 10.25 x 14.25 inches. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.…

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Melbourne : Australian Exhibitions Touring Agency, [1996?]. Folded sheet, pp. [4], text by Isobel Crombie, illustrated with five images, light wear and creasing. Scarce room brochure for the touring exhibition of Bill Henson's photographs in 1996 following his representation of Australia at the 46th Venice Biennale in 1995. An ephemeral and scarce catalogue from Bill Henson.…

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original announcement card for an exhibition of photographs by Bill Henson titled "Untitled 1983-84" and held at the Nathalie Karg gallery, NYC, April 7 May 19, 1990. According to the artist's cv, this and another concurrent NY show were his first solo shows in the US. Stiff thin card, folded once to 4 pages; 3 b&w illustrations; 6 x 7.75 inches, opens to 18 inches wide. Condition: Fine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 75, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in mint condition, purchased new from the NGV at the time of publication. The standard edition, printed with three variant dustjacket illustrations in equal numbers (marble sculpture, face of a girl and a seascape). A deluxe limited edition with original signed photograph was also issued. 'His powerful and edgy images approach the painterly and the cinematic, bringing formal and classical qualities to the gritty, casual dramas of the everyday. This publication presents a selection of images, compiled by the artist, that range from sublime landscapes and nudes to classical sculpture shown in museum settings, all heightened by the velvet-like blackness of the shadows and the striking use of chiaroscuro to selectively obscure and reveal form. Henson's nudes portray his subjects as self-contained, focused on internal reveries; his landscapes are photographed at twilight, underscoring the transitional mood of the moment; and his museum images juxtapose graceful marble statues against the transfixed visitors observing them. Beautiful, enigmatic and unforgettable, Henson's images enliven our own sense of being.' - the publisher. Catalogue of an exhibition held at NGV International, Melbourne, 10 March - 27 August 2017 and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 16 September - 11 December 2017.…

Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, folded card (lightly rubbed), cover illustration, catalogue of 70 works, biography and bibliography. Scarce.