Max Dupain OBE (1911–1992), photographer, set up his studio in Sydney in 1934. Through the 1930s he gained exposure in the lifestyle magazine The Home, developing his reputation with portraits and advertising shots, and with photographs of dancers from the Kirsova Ballet and the Ballets Russes companies that toured Australia between 1936 and 1940. In the 1950s he turned increasingly to architectural photography, collaborating in particular with architects Samuel Lipson, Sydney Ancher and Harry Seidler, and documenting the construction of the Sydney Opera House from 1958 to 1973. During the same period he began photographing historic properties for the National Trust. The Australian Centre for Photography's 1975 touring exhibition Max Dupain: A Retrospective 1930–1975 brought Dupain's name to the attention of the wider public, and turned The Sunbaker, taken nearly 40 years earlier, into a definitive Australian image. Dupain continued to operate his studio on Sydney's Lower North Shore until he died at the age of 81.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
© Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
http://davidmoorephotography.com.au/
Tim Fairfax AC (54 portraits supported)
The Gordon Darling Foundation (36 portraits supported)
Drop into the Gallery this Spring for free creative activities inspired by our vibrant exhibition Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams.
Do we have a treat for the smaller humans in your life! Little Faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves.
