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by Max Dupain

Ballet (Emmy Towsey and Evelyn Ippen, Bodenwieser Dancers performing Waterlilies), 1937, printed (c. 1939) [x]

 Max Dupain 

Portrait With Circle ,c1930s

© Max Dupain, 1930s, Untitled (Nude behind screen)

 “Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.” ― Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter Geraldine

Typing Class, 1940s (Max Dupain)

Olive Cotton 1930s (Max Dupain)

Barbara Robison, 1936 (Max Dupain)

Magnolia Dead! 1937 (Max Dupain)

Nude, Cronulla Sandhills, Australia, 1937 (Max Dupain)

Model in Straw Hat, c1937 (Max Dupain)

Nude on Dune, 1930s by Max Dupain

Nude and Trombone by Max Dupain

Max Dupain, 1937

Max Dupain, 1941

© Max Dupain, 1930s, Untitled (self portrait)

This photograph is part of the exhibtion ‘What’s in a face? Aspects of portrait photography’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

“Using photography to depict the face and figure was initially a time-consuming and expensive business. However, the drive to document all things in the world, and rapid technological advances, meant that by the 1880s most people, willing or not and regardless of the photographer’s or their own desires, were documented in some way.

Spurious 19th century ideas to do with what a face could represent exploded in the early 20th century when identity came to be seen as a psychological rather than social phenomenon. Theatricality and performing for the camera, which had existed in photography since its inception, also became much more evident in this period.

In the post-WWII era representations of the face and the body quickly acquired a political and socially aware edge. More recently the face has tended to stand less as an expression of personal experience and more a statement that may signify a set of ideas, whether about the individual, the group or the society at large. Many of these highly constructed images acknowledge and play upon the problematics of the photographic portrait.”

Exhibition dates: Sep. 24, 2011 – Feb. 5, 2012 at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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