Max Daupin Australian 1911-1992
Sunbaker, 1937

£3,500

Silver print, printed in 1998 from original negative
Blindstamp (lower right)
Numbered 21/90
Dated and signed (verso)
37 × 42 cm (51 × 56 cm framed)

Dupain was an Australian modernist photographer, who set up his own studio in Sydney in the 1930s. In 1937, while on the south coast of New South Wales, he photographed the head and shoulders of an English friend, Harold Salvage, lying on the sand at Culburra Beach. But it was not until the 1970s that the photograph began to receive wide recognition. A print of the photograph was purchased in 1976 by the National Gallery of Australia and by the 1990s it had cemented its place as an iconic image of Australia. The entirety of his output is contained within the State Library of New South Wales.