In this very readable and moving biography, the Sunbaker photographer comes across as someone who spoke against his myth – but also traded on it until the end
‘Australia’s pre-eminent writer about art photography’ … Helen Ennis, the author of Max Dupain: A Portrait. She also wrote a biography of Dupain’s wife Olive Cotton.‘Australia’s pre-eminent writer about art photography’ … Helen Ennis, the author of Max Dupain: A Portrait. She also wrote a biography of Dupain’s wife Olive Cotton.
Decades later, this image will be considered the most iconic photograph ever taken by an Australian. It will also be the most printed.sums up this nation’s obsession with beach culture, in all its relaxed and hedonistic glory. The photographer, Max Dupain, would eventually claim that he didn’t want to be defined by it, awkwardly stating that he was “embarrassed by all the attention it was getting, from jingoistic Australians … and from gay couples decorating their new flats.
After the war, and once his legal union with Cotton ended, Dupain remarried, this time to Diana, who was 10 years his junior. The couple started a family and built a house in the art-and-design enclave of Castlecrag, on the northern side of the harbour; Dupain took the opportunity to photograph every aspect of the construction process, including documenting the builder’s mistakes.
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