But it was after Dupain opened his photography studio in 1934 when CSR, which operated sugar mills across north Queensland, became his first commercial customer the following year. Boy on tractor ...

“Sunbaker” by Max Dupain is one of Australia’s most famous photographic images. This particular print, Sunbaker (1937, printed 1970s), signed and dated, sold for $49,091 in May.

Revolutionary ... Max Dupain in 1979. Credit: Col Townsend "A lot of them have been in boxes for more than eight years," he says. "They should be out there in institutions and on people's walls.

A collection of images by legendary Australian photographer Max Dupain has sold for a record-breaking $1 million. Roughly 500 monochromatic photos by Dupain were put on auction in Sydney last week ...

In 1924, aged 13, she found a friend who was also interested in photography: one Max Dupain, the only son of family friends who, like the Cottons, had a holiday home in Newport on Sydney’s ...

Max Dupain took the most iconic Australian photograph of the last century – Sunbaker, c. 1938. But our most famous photographer was far more complex than this sunny image suggests.

Max Dupain took the most iconic Australian photograph of the last century – Sunbaker, c. 1938. But our most famous photographer was far more complex than this sunny image suggests.

Max Dupain once ruefully joked that his idea of hell was to be condemned to print the negative for eternity, but as his biographer, Helen Ennis, notes, he nonetheless kept on printing it.

Max Dupain said he was not afraid of death. He was a proud rationalist (and a romantic) who accepted it as the inevitable end to existence in a godless universe. But, as his close friends observed ...

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Max was responsible for some of the nation's most iconic images, like Sunbaker, taken in 1937. Rex Dupain has followed in his father's footsteps, becoming one of this country's best photographers.