Marc dupain biography

Marc Dupain.
Newsreader for Flemish commercial broadcasting compagny VTM since its start back in 1989.
Dupain senior had aspired to a career in medicine but came to channel his scientific abilities into extensive writings on the subject of physical education.

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Max Dupain (Australian, 1911-1992)
Sydney Harbour Crepuscule
1937
Gelatin silver print
32.5 x 47cm

Noun. crépuscule m (plural crépuscules) twilight, dusk (the time of the day when the sun sets)

Iv’e been saving up these images for some time. This, the first of a two-part posting, features many images that are rare online, especially in a large size.

Dupain was a master of the use of light and form (Tea Towel Trio, 1934), an early proponent of Modernist photography in Australia (Silos at Pyrmont; Silos through windscreen, both 1935), an expert in night photography (Mosman Bay at dusk, 1937) and the use of chiaroscuro (Passengers Disembarking from Ferry, 1950s; Newsstand, Nd). He was an innovator in surrealist photography (Night with her train of stars and her gift of sleep, 1936-37), photomontage (Nude Figure with Shell Transposed, 1936), and advertising photography. His nude studies evidence an experimentation towards the representation of the human body (Jean with W

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Max Dupain

Australian photographer (1911–1992)

Max Dupain AC OBE
Dupain in 1937
Born	Maxwell Spencer Dupain (1911-04-22)22 April 1911 Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
Died	27 July 1992(1992-07-27) (aged 81)
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	photographer
Notable work	Sunbaker
Parents	George Dupain (father) Thomasine Dupain (mother)

Maxwell Spencer DupainACOBE (22 April 1911 – 27 July 1992) was an Australian modernist photographer.

Early life

Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography.^[1] He later joined the Photographic Society of NSW, where he was taught by Justin Newlan; after completing his tertiary studies, he worked for Cecil Bostock in Sydney.

Career

Early years

By 1934 Max Dupain had struck out on his own and opened a studio in Bond Street, Sydney. In 1937, while on the south coast of New South Wales, he photographed the head and shoulders of an English friend, Harold Salvage, lying on the sand at Culburra B

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From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images that have passed into our national imagination.

Max Dupain (1911-1992) was a major cultural figure in Australia, and at the forefront of the visual arts in a career spanning more than fifty years.

During this time he produced a number of images now regarded as iconically Australian. He championed modern photography and a distinctive Australian approach.

To date, Dupain has been seen mostly in one-dimensional, limited and limiting terms – as exceptional, as super masculine, as an Australian hero.

But this landmark biography approaches him as a complex and contradictory figure who, despite the apparent certitude of his photographic style, was filled with self-doubt and anxiety.

Dupain was a Romantic and a rationalist and struggled with the intensity of his emotions and reactions. He wanted simplicity in his art and life, but found it difficult to attain. He never wanted