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Bill Henson Finally Speaks Out: “She Loved It!”
12:38PM Jess McGuire | It seems like a lifetime ago that everyone in this country was up in arms over controversial photographer Bill Henson, but it was only back in May! It was a crazy time, with one half of the country pointing the finger and screaming “DIRTY PEDO ART FREAK!” at anyone who dared to take a photograph of their off-spring naked in the bath, and the other half photographing their off-spring naked in the bath and then popping the picture on a magazine cover as a giant “eat my poo” gesture to the Henson haters.
During all the kerfuffle, columnists, letter writers, and Prime Ministers all took a turn in giving their opinion on Bill Henson’s art to the media, but the one person who kept their trap shut was Bill Henson himself.
No more!
Photographer Bill Henson has broken his silence to launch a defence of his controversial art, which was decried earlier this year as verging on child pornography.
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3:37PM Jess McGuire | Apparently he lives in an area of Melbourne which has a couple of live music venues, and he used to complain about the noise.
YOU CAN’T COMPLAIN ABOUT ART, BILL! WHERE WILL IT END? THE CONFISCATION OF INSTRUMENTS? MADNESS!
On Friday night I nearly tried to gather some pitchforks and torches and start a pack of righteous vigilantes dedicated to bringing the street justice, but then I realised I couldn’t be bothered leaving the bar and walking all the way down the road simply to hate on some art certain folks don’t like.
Oh, and guess what else I heard? Apparently he had “mature aged trees” transferred into his backyard! Using noisy trucks and cranes!
MATURE AGED TREES, BILL? AT LEAST YOUR TASTE IN HORTICULTURE WON’T LEAVE CHILD ADVOCATES FOAMING AT THE MOUTH WITH RAGE.
Fin.
Actually, wait. Let’s add a LiveJournal feel to this post.
LISTENING TO: “Yours Truly, Angry Mob” by Kaiser Chiefs
PS: Here is a real article with some actual insights.
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9:13AM Jess McGuire | Let us touch briefly on the current brouhaha (always a great Monday morning when I get to use that word) surrounding the exhibition of photographer Bill Henson. His photographs featured images “of early pubescent girls, in particular a 13-year-old whose picture, naked from the waist up, adorned the opening night invitation” and the subsequent outrage from the moral majority over his work led to police raiding a Sydney gallery and seizing the particularly offensive images.
As Larissa Dubecki in The Age notes -
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