Naked Youth.(Bill Henson)

Until recently, being an American admirer of the photographer Bill Henson was a lonely and rather painstaking chore. Apart from a small survey of his work at the Denver Art Museum in 1990 an a few photographs included in a 1984 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition of Australia art, he has been almost impossible to find in the Unite States, less unknown than antiknown--a sub-subcult figure even within circles devoted to contemporary photography.

Given that his work has been a staple of the European art world since 1981 and that it occupied an entire pavilion at the 1995 Venice ...

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