Particle Mist draws together works from three of Bill Henson's earliest photographic series: 'Untitled 1974', 'Untitled 1975' with additional previously unseen photographs from an unfinished work begun in 1976. Together they form a portrait of an artist as a young man, which has now been published as a beautiful artist's monograph by STANLEY/BARKER, with support from Tolarno Galleries.  The series shows Henson's recognised and celebrated style, capturing the delicacy, magnetism and celestial nature of the ballerinas, that is both bewitching and disturbing. When photographing the dancers, Henson found himself fascinated by the faces, which were 'lost to the world, absorbed in the dance'. He was drawn to the idea of a spirit of an individual in a space.  The elegant cover illustration is a commissioned arrangement of three songs from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, adapted into a musical maze which is based on a 14th Century scribe's version of the French ballade En la maison Dedalus. Each of the three arrangements corresponds to one of the 'acts' or chapters within the book.  These sequences are an important part of Henson's work, creating a dialogue between the images and enhancing both the meaning and effect. An image that is hard to discern singularly becomes more readable as part of a sequence, while at the same time the whole sequence seems to become more ethereal and requiring of an emotional response.

Particle Mist

Henson, Bill

STANLEY/BARKER

For every pastor, every parent, and all who care Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones provides practical insights on how to honor God and radically love LGBT+ people in your life. Our 150-page, interactive guide is a comprehensive resource that rapidly equips pastors, parents, and all who care. Great for: - Christian parents, family members, and relatives of LGBT+ loved ones - Pastors and ministry teams seeking to enhance care for LGBT+ individuals - Staff and faculty of Christian schools, universities, and camps - Executive leaders seeking to train and equip your ministry team - Christian counselors and pastoral care staff who often care for LGBT+ people and their families - Small group study resource Guiding Families seeks to eliminate family rejection in this generation… Examples of content: - Understanding risks LGBT+ youth face (family rejection, bullying, suicidality, and homelessness) - Real life profiles from LGBT+ young people and their parents - Powerful insights from our nationwide parent survey - Practical tips for life stages and events (coming out, transitioning, partners, weddings, family gatherings) - Articles from Christian leaders specializing in LGBT+ relational and spiritual care - Guidance on prayer and supplication to bless LGBT+ loved ones — and you

Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones

Religion & Spirituality

Baatz, Meg

Christian Books & Bibles

Lead Them Home

When LGBT+ loved ones come out, families can experience shock. Emotions erupt. Words spill. Relationships become disconnected. One courageous disclosure can be met with a response that communicates, "I don't understand you"; Meanwhile, in the church, LGBT+ people often face impossible hurdles and suspicion about their faith. 
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Posture Shift Books

Cuando los seres amados LGBT+ salen del closet, los padres pueden experimentar choque. Las emociones explotan. Palabras hirientes derraman. Las relaciones se rompen. Una revelación valiosa del hijo puede se responde con una respuesta que comunica, “No te entiendo.” Mientras tanto en la iglesia, personas LGBT+ a menudo enfrentan obstáculos imposibles y sospechas sobre su fe. 
Guiando Familias ofrece un camino bíblico y relacional que honra nuestros seres amados LGBT+. 
La Edición Esencial ofrece más de 120 páginas de consejo para pastores y padres cristianos cuando un ser amado sale del closet. Lleno de consejos relacionales y prácticos; respuestas a preguntas comunes; y exploraciones en diferentes temas como el duelo, la influencia de los padres, y el cuidado relacional, Guiando Familias se presenta bellamente en un formato similar a una revista. 
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A significant photography publication by Bill Henson, one of Australia’s most extraordinary imaginations.
Over thirty years have passed since Bill Henson made his iconic Untitled 1985/86 series. These mesmerizing photographs cast a hazy procession of people and places in suburbia, interspersed with dreamlike vignettes of Egyptian structures.
Now, Henson revisits his home suburb to create new work. While these photographs return to the same cul-de-sacs as the Untitled series, they show an environment that appears to have slipped out of linear time. Henson’s new images are sumptuous and resplendent in their grandeur, offering a view of what is just down the street, but seems to come from another age. Together, the two series provide a glimpse into Henson’s brilliant mind as he ponders the passing of time.
The Light Fades but the Gods Remain, celebrates an extraordinary artist at two stages in his career. Casting suburbia in an entirely new light, this publication is a captivating meditation on growing up. Illustrated throughout

The Light Fades but the Gods Remain

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

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. This book will be one of Scalo’s major contributions to the understanding of contemporary photography. Published on the occasion of the artist’s retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, opening January 2005 and touring to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in April. 
Essays by Judy Annear, Jennie Boddington, Edmund Capon, Dennis Cooper, Peter Craven, Isobel Crombie, John Forbes, Michael Heyward, Alwynne Mackie, David Malouf, Bernice Murphy, Peter Schjeldahl, and an interview with Bill Henson by Sebastian Smee.

Mnemosyne

Scalo Verlag Ac

Presenting the works of 50 contemporary artists and photographers from around the world, Strangers explores the different roles the camera now plays in negotiating the boundaries between public and private life, trust and fear, intimacy and isolation. Accompanying the first recurring exhibition of its kind devoted to photography and related media at the International Center of Photography in New York, Strangers investigates the social world through images that have been created as a result of encounters with people unknown to one another. In addition to the more personal and psychological aspects of estrangement, the artists in Strangers also engage with the theme of globalization and diaspora--an especially timely subject in its geopolitical ramifications. Strangers includes illuminating biographical essays on each of the artists and their works; four original essays by ICP curators Brian Wallis, Christopher Phillips, Carol Squiers and Edward Earle that explore the ever-evolving and prescient theme of strangers; and approximately 200 images generated in a variety of media from traditional and digital processes to multimedia installations and video. Artists represented include Olivio Barbieri, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, David Goldblatt, Bill Henson, Susan Meiselas, Shirin Neshat, John Schabel and Joel Sternfeld, among others.

STRANGERS: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video

Phillips, Christopher

Wallis, Brian

DiCorcia, Philip-Lorca

Neshat, Shirin

Photography & Video

Steidl/International Center of Photography

Australian artist 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. His photographs of landscapes at dusk, of the industrial no-man's land that lies on the outskirts of our cities, and of androgynous girls and boys adrift in the nocturnal turmoil of adolescence are painterly tableaux that continue 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 that escape rationalism's iron grip, providing a much-needed antidote to a culture that increasingly looses itself in a numbing vortex of blinking screens and glittering surfaces. 
Were it not for Henson's primary, almost devotional need to elicit empathy for his troubled human subjects, there's a feeling that nothing would prevent the black in his photographs from completely absorbing his attention and extinguishing his work. --Dennis Cooper 
Hardcover, 16.5 x 12 inches, 192 pages, 125 color images.

Bill Henson: Lux et Nox

Cooper, Dennis

Scala Pub

Bill Henson, Mnemosyne: Photographic Works 1974-2004

Scalo

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