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Latitude
-33.8894781
Longitude
151.1274125
Start Date
1911-01-01
End Date
1911-01-01

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ID
tba1f0

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DAAO URL
https://www.daao.org.au/bio/max-dupain-1
Birth Place
Ashfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Biography
Max Dupain (1911-1992)was Australia’s most important photographer between Harold Cazenoux and David Moore and John Gollings. The photographer of choice for most leading Sydney architects from the 1950s to the 1980s. Preferred black and white silver gelatin prints or 35mm colour slides to medium and large format transparencies. Dupain’s own house (shared with another noted photographer, his first wife Olive Cotton) was designed by Arthur Baldwinson in the mid 1950s. Books with substantial quantities of Dupain photographs include: Max Dupain, Old Colonial Buildings of Australia, Methuen 1980; Peter Johnson, Leslie Wilkinson: A Practical Idealist, Unwin Hyman 1983; Gael Newton, Max Dupain, David Ell Press 1980; James Broadbent, Clive Lucas and Ian Stapleton, The Golden Decade of Australian Architecture: The Work of John Verge, David Ell Press 1978, and Francis Greenway: A Celebration, Cassell Australia 1980.Sources—Various websites accessed on a Google search October 2004. Writers: Davina Jackson Date written: 2015 Last updated: 2015
Born
b. 4 April 1911
Summary
Max Dupain was one of Australia's outstanding photographers of the mid 20th century, specialising in architecture, merchandise, industrial and portrait commissions, as well as his own landscape and scenery compositions. His works have been exhibited widely and form the basis of various books.
Gender
Male
Died
1992
Age at death
81