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  • Bill Henson Quote - 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. Download This Image
  • Bill Henson Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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.
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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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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!

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - When you shoot on film, you don’t know whether you’ve got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it’s a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you. Download This Image

    When you shoot on film, you don’t know whether you’ve got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it’s a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - There’s something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It’s just breathtaking.

    There’s something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It’s just breathtaking.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.

    In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.

    Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

    It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

    You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going “It’s me! I’m the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!”

    I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going “It’s me! I’m the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!”

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Henson Quote - 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.

    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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