Mnemosyne

Hardcover, Scalo, 2005, Zurich-Berlin-New York

Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney

Printed in Germany

A truly beautiful book with a minor wear apparent to dust jacket. Otherwise unmarked throughout.

Hundreds of Black & White and Colour photographs. Text in English. From the publisher: "Sometimes, but very rarely these days, one can announce a real discovery in contemporary photography ' a book that will emphatically place its author on the international map on the same level as such giants of photography as Robert Frank and Nan Goldin. After the international success of Lux et Nox Scalo is proud and excited to announce the definitive mid-life retrospective book on Australian artist Bill Henson. The book combines all groups of work that Henson has created up to the present: from his early Ballet pictures (1974), to his body and nude portraits (1977'1986), from his photographs of street-crowds (1979'1982) to his Baroque Triptychs (1983'84), from his fantastic combinations of pictures taken in the Australian Suburbs and Egypt (1985/86) to his Los Angeles and New York nightscapes (1987'88), from his famous cut-out collages shown at the centenary Venice Biennale in 1995, to the portraits of adolescents and his magical color compositions for the Paris Opera (1990/91), and, most recently, a haunting selection of his images of children adrift in the wilderness of night (1997-2004), many of these appearing for the first time. Bill Henson is a continent in photography to be discovered." Arguably one of the most beautiful books to exist.