Maxwell Spencer Dupain (1911 - 1992), Australian photographer who developed an influential style of commercial photography that emphasized the geometric forms of his architectural and industrial subjects.
Dupain, who exhibited his first landscape photographs while attending grammar school, studied at the East Sydney Technical College and the Julian Ashton Art School (both 1933–35), while he apprenticed from 1930 to 1934 with commercial photographer Cecil Bostock. During World War II he left his fashion- and portrait-photography studio to work for the army camouflage unit; he then worked for the Australian Department of Information (1945–47). Upon his return to studio work, he de-emphasized picturesque landscapes and portraiture in favour of the more abstract architectural and industrial imagery that established him as one of Australia’s most significant Modernist photographers. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions and retrospectives, notably an exhibit at the Photographer’s Gallery in London that celebrated his 80th birthday. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1982.
Few photographs from the Modernists in America or the Bauhaus School in Berlin were actually seen by the Australians, but Dupain and his more adventurous contemporaries were hungrily consuming what information they could, and reflecting the imported ideas into an Australian setting. In the early Thirties Dupain was making surreal double exposures and floral studies using the solarisation technique that Man Ray had popularised. His studies of industrial buildings and machinery echo the quality of imagery being produced at the same time in the US by Margaret Bourke White.
Dupain, who exhibited his first landscape photographs while attending grammar school, studied at the East Sydney Technical College and the Julian Ashton Art School (both 1933–35), while he apprenticed from 1930 to 1934 with commercial photographer Cecil Bostock. During World War II he left his fashion- and portrait-photography studio to work for the army camouflage unit; he then worked for the Australian Department of Information (1945–47). Upon his return to studio work, he de-emphasized picturesque landscapes and portraiture in favour of the more abstract architectural and industrial imagery that established him as one of Australia’s most significant Modernist photographers. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions and retrospectives, notably an exhibit at the Photographer’s Gallery in London that celebrated his 80th birthday. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1982.
Few photographs from the Modernists in America or the Bauhaus School in Berlin were actually seen by the Australians, but Dupain and his more adventurous contemporaries were hungrily consuming what information they could, and reflecting the imported ideas into an Australian setting. In the early Thirties Dupain was making surreal double exposures and floral studies using the solarisation technique that Man Ray had popularised. His studies of industrial buildings and machinery echo the quality of imagery being produced at the same time in the US by Margaret Bourke White.
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| Mr Max Dupain |
Architectural photography
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| Newmed 1 (The David Madison Clinical Sciences Building) Newcastle, New South Wales © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| 1968, Church of St Anthony © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| ANZ Computer Centre stairwell, 1975 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Art Gallery of NSW, 1970s © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Australia Square through keyhole, 1975 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Australia Square with Calder sculpture, 1975 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Australian Embassy, Paris 1978 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Carillon tower, Canberra, 1970s © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Giralang Primary School © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Hannes House © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Harbour Bridge support system (1941) © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Historical images of the ANSTO nuclear facililty. Circa 1960 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Killara House © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Lindfield College, 1979 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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© 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Maitland public library © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Morning mist envelops Harbour Bridge, 1950s © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Mount Druitt Hospital, Mt. Druitt, New South Wales | 1982 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| National Carillon, Canberra, 1972 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| P&O architecture style © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| P&O architecture style © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| P&O architecture style © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| P&O architecture style © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Parliament House of Australia, Canberra under construction, January 1987. © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Chaim Hillman House, Roseville © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Mosman Bay, Sydney 1940s © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Shark tower at Manly © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Silos at Pyrmont, 1930s © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Silos in morning © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Streetscape titled 'Chantilly Curves' © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| The AWA Tower with Wynyard Park © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| The tram 1937 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| Twilight, peak hour, Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1946 © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
The construction of the Sydney Opera House
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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| © 2017 Max Dupain Exhibition Photography. All Rights Reserved |
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