Bill Henson · Untitled 1974

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 78, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 72, 1974 | Art gallery of NSW

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 73, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 66, 1974 | src Art gallery of New South Wales

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 65, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 67, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

‘Untitled 1974’ was one of Bill Henson’s earliest photographic series. When photographing the ballerinas, he found himself fascinated by faces, ‘lost to the world, absorbed in the dance. So I photographed their faces rather than their bodies. I was drawn to the spirit of some person in a space.’ Bill Henson 2004

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. AG of NSW

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 54, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 52, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled, 1974 | Art gallery of NSW

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 31, 1974. Type C photograph | src Tolarno Galleries

Ruth Hollick and cat people

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Young girl holding cat]; ca. 1910-1930. Glass lantern slide | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Lois White, seated, holding a cat]; ca. 1910-1930. Glass lantern slide | src SLV

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss Sheila Sutherland, with cat [1915]. Glass negative | src SLV

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss Gelfren (young woman with cat) (n.d.) | src NGA

Nudes by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss M. Whitehead, ca. 1910 – ca. 1930. Glass negative | src SLV
Whole-length, nude, bending over to touch a shell on the ground (description on State Library of Victoria)

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss Wynn Jones, ca. 1910 – ca. 1930. Glass negative | src SLV ~ State library of Victoria

Girl with Chinese paper lamp

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Young girl holding a Chinese paper lantern, wearing a hat] (1910-1930) [detail]

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Young girl holding a Chinese paper lantern, wearing a hat] 1910-1930. Glass lantern slide | src SLV

Dancers (1914) by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Four girls dancing, wearing Grecian costume) | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Four girls weeping, wearing Grecian costumes) Glass negative | src SLV

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Three girls, wearing Grecian costume, with pan pipes) | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

Thought by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Thought, 1921 | src National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Image ID: De102079

Thought is a portrait of the artist’s niece in a distinctly Australian costume adorned with appliqued gum leaves and a gum nut belt. The sitter is pictured in a meditative pose and the evocative title of the photograph encourages an allegorical interpretation of the work. The photograph is an exhibition-size print in its original frame. Hollick entered ‘Thought’ in the Colonial Exhibition in London in 1921 and was awarded a bronze medal. src NGV

Ruth Hollick (1883-1977) ~ Thought, 1921 | src NGV (detail)

The exhibition Photography: Real and Imagined (2023-2024) examines two perspectives on photography; photography grounded in the real world, as a record, a document, a reflection of the world around us; and photography as the product of imagination, storytelling and illusion. On occasion, photography operates in both realms of the real and the imagined.

Highlighting major photographic works from the NGV Collection, including recent acquisitions on display for the very first time, Photography: Real and Imagined examines the complex, engaging and sometimes contradictory nature, of all things photographic. The NGV’s largest survey of the photography collection, the exhibition includes more than 300 works by Australian and international photographers and artists working with photo-media from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. / The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia