Shot in the early 1990s, Bill Henson’s new photo book visually recreates the “emotional effect generated by listening to music”. Here, the Australian photographer talks about why “watching people is fascinating”
’s concertgoers don formal attire; dressed, we’re led to believe, for a night at one of Paris’s foremost opera houses. Seated in full view of the stage, their faces lit cinematic tension, smart white shirts act as armour for the photographer’s male protagonists, while women’s collarbones glisten with jewels, their lips painted varying shades of berry.
Returning to Paris multiple times over the course of a year, Henson attended shows at the city’s three great opera houses – the final images were based on these accounts – observing the emotional tenor and anticipation of the audience. “I was familiar with that concert environment, but because I had the opportunity to do anything I liked I spent a fair bit of time there,” he says.
“Quite predictably, watching the audience seated in the dark auditorium was the most interesting and emotional thing for me. I trained my camera on the audience and over a period of about 12 months,
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