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There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.

Bill Henson

I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it’s a different place.
BILL HENSON

Beautiful Dawn Landscape Light
On practical level I can’t pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don’t wander around. It’s almost impossible for me to pick up a camera… it’s really hard.
BILL HENSON

Cameras Level Thinking
You have the literalness of a glass on a table – and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can’t get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject – of getting the whole world into the picture.
BILL HENSON

Evidential Getting Literariness World
When you go to a great concert something that happens is there is a deep sense of communality and connectedness one to another – as though we are all looking to eachother and saying yeah, we get it, we’re all on one page.
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Concerts Pages Yeah
There’s something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It’s just breathtaking.
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Architecture Breathtaking Rooms
What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.
BILL HENSON

Happened Moving World
All of those a requickly made decisions. The fact that you can see the images right away in a funny way makes the whole relationship more casual. I don’t want a casual relationship with my subject.
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Image More Plugged Quickly Relationship
I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in the political dimensions of these things.
BILL HENSON

Beautiful Dream Light
It’s a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them out on a laptop that is plugged into your Hasselblad and go “oh no, do it again, do it again”.
BILL HENSON

Decision Different Want
It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.
BILL HENSON

Dreamscape Interested Suburbs
No medium is more limited than any other. It’s what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.
BILL HENSON

Differences Doe Photography
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We’re always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!
BILL HENSON

Black Little Shade White
There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.
BILL HENSON

Differences Inherent Mediums
It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.
BILL HENSON

Contradictory Made Photography
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.
BILL HENSON

Black Little Tiny White
You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
BILL HENSON

Body Life Whole World

There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.

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