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 ...

He was one of the most prolific Australian photographers of the 20th century, but these lesser-known Max Dupain works have escaped the public eye for decades.

“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.

This was published 11 years ago. Max Dupain's favourite image not the one we think A long-lost print has rewritten the story behind one of Australia's most famous photographs, writes Julie Power.

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 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 ...

"Dupain was very much an outdoor person with a healthy lifestyle,'' Lebovic says. "So it's no surprise his photography captured the Australian imagination, with our great love of beaches. Sunbaker ...

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Image: 39.37 x 50 in. (100 x 127 cm.) Born in Sydney in 1911, Max Dupain was one of the most prolific 20th-century photographers, shaping the practice in Australia with his documentarian eye.

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.

Not just the Aussie beach which, she finds, Dupain didn’t photograph all that much anyway, but other key spaces for people of Dupain’s ilk. Places such as photography studios and darkrooms; as ...