Max Dupain
a portrait of the biography of australia's most iconic photographer from leading curator and award-winning author
$31.97
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2025
Summary
Max Dupain: A Life in Light and Shadow
Named as one of The Guardian’s 25 Best Australian Books of 2024, from multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis is Max Dupain: A Portrait, the first-ever biography of Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images that have passed into our national imagination.
Max Dupain (1911-1992) was a major cultural figure in Australia, and at the forefr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781460764817 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1460764811 |
| Author: | Helen Ennis |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Helen Ennis
Helen Ennis writes on Australian photography and photographers. She was formerly Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia and Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory and Sir William Dobell Chair of Art History at the ANU School of Art & Design; she is currently Emeritus Professor. She has curated numerous exhibitions for the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Library of Australia. Her many books include Margaret Michaelis: Love, loss and photography (2005), winner of the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Olive Cotton: A life in photography (2019), winner of the 2020 Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the 2022 Adelaide Festival Award for Non-Fiction, and the 2020 Magarey Medal for Biography. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and was awarded the J. Dudley Johnston Medal by the British Royal Photographic Society in 2021.
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