1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1911–1992 · AUSTRALIA
Max Dupain
Clean modernist photography of bodies, light and architecture.
- Born
- 1911
- Died
- 1992
- Country
- Australia
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1937Sunbaker
- 1946Meat Queue
WHY THEY MATTER
Australian modernist; Sunbaker is held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia; the State Library of New South Wales holds his archive; appointed AC OBE.
THE LIFE
Dupain received his first camera in 1924 and apprenticed with Cecil Bostock in Sydney before opening his own studio in Bond Street in 1934. In 1937 he photographed his friend Harold Salvage lying on the sand at Culburra Beach, the picture known as Sunbaker, which later became an icon of Australia. During the Second World War he served with the Royal Australian Air Force. He later specialised in architecture, using a Linhof Technika 4x5 camera from 1959.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Linhof Technika 4x5
Also born in 1900–1929
1902–1984 · United States · Photographer
Ansel Adams
Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941Source: Wikipedia
1902–2002 · Mexico · Photographer
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
1903–1993 · Mexico · Photographer
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Modernist portraits and street pictures of postrevolutionary Mexico.
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo (Frida Kahlo exhibition), 1953Source: Wikipedia
1903–1975 · United States · Photographer
Walker Evans
Frontal, plain-spoken records of American vernacular life.
American Photographs, 1938Source: Wikipedia
1904–1983 · United Kingdom · Photographer
Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
The English at Home, 1936Source: Wikipedia