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Max Dupain OBE
Max Dupain OBE (–) was a pioneering modernist photographer. Born in Sydney, he received his first camera as a teenager and trained with photographer Cecil Bostock while working as his assistant. After setting up his own studio in , Dupain established his reputation with portraiture and advertising work, gained exposure in the lifestyle magazine The Home, and photographed ballet dancers for the ABC, including dancers from the Kirsova Ballet and the three Ballets Russes companies that toured Australia between and While Dupain was on service during the Second World War, he briefly worked for the Department of Information from to , photographing Australia for propaganda purposes. His then-wife Olive Cotton, one of very few professional women photographers in Australia, ran his studio. In the s Dupain turned increasingly to architectural photography, collaborating in particular with architects Samuel Lipson, Sydney Ancher and Harry Seidler. From to he documented the con
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William Dobell
Australian artist
Sir William Dobell (24 September &#;&#; 13 May ) was an Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named in his honour.
Career
[edit]Dobell was born in Cooks Hill, a working-class neighbourhood of Newcastle, New South Wales in Australia to Robert Way Dobell and Margaret Emma (née Wrightson). His father was a builder and there were six children.
Dobell's artistic talents were evident early. In , he was apprenticed to Newcastle architect, Wallace L. Porter and in he moved to Sydney as a draftsman. In , he enrolled in evening art classes at the Sydney Art School (which later became the Julian Ashton Art School), with Henry Gibbons as his teacher. He was influenced by George Washington Lambert. He was also gay and consequently never married, while several of his works carried strong homoerotic overtone
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When the second world war began, högsta Dupain and photographer Olive Cotton had been married for fem months and he was thriving personally and professionally. Around him he had his loving, supportive family and a wonderfully creative and encouraging group of friends and colleagues. His professional position was exceptionally strong: in the fem years since he had established his own business, he had been recognised as a leading modernist photographer in both the professional and art spheres.
By the time the war was over, however, he had endured massive disruptions that left no aspect of his life untouched. He was divorced from Olive and had married Diana; he had seen his family only intermittently; friends including the photographer and cameraman Damien Parer, his school rowing partner Clarence Glasscock, and Gil Dawe, a pilot with whom he had trained at Bankstown, had been killed.
He had spent years separated from other friends, such as Douglas Annand, Richard Beck and Ernest Hyd