Hi John... I was there on the Sat just gone. I agree a fantastic exhibit.
What struck me was there were a number of images that most of us would have
walked away from eg images with high contrast and deep shadows but Max seems
to be able to use this to his advantage.
I spent 3 days in Sydney and have come back with some amazing images all on
slide. I must get a good scanner very soon. I have so many images I want to
show you guys now.
My twin brother was with me and you can see the types of images we took at
http://boltdj.com/sydney
I think mine are better thou coz they are taken with the OM-4
Cheers Adam
PS The shot of the Sunrise with the row of Lamps is mine taken with his Fuji
S602z
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wheeler" <wheelej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "The Zuikoholics" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: [OM] OT Max Dupain Exhibition in Sydney
> G'day Zuiks,
>
> Max Dupain is described as Australia's most celebrated photographer and I
> spent an enjoyable hour at this new exhibition at the Sydney State Library
> yesterday. It's a collection of forty of his portraits and the first thing
> that struck me was the superb print quality until I saw that on his death
in
> 1992 he bequeathed all his negatives to his assistant Jill White who is
able
> to create new prints for ongoing showings.
>
> These rarely seen pictures are from his pictures of people both posed and
> unposed and comprise examples from the twenties to the seventies. He's
> reported as saying that he was more concerned with light, shade, and
texture
> rather than illustrating the character of his subject and an indication of
> how revered he was is that prints of his famous 'Sunbaker' shot are for
sale
> in the library's shop at $AUD7,020 each.
>
> During WWII he was commissioned to do work in North Queensland
particularly
> for the sugar industry. In those areas were stationed large numbers of
> Australian and American troops in training camps prior to being shipped to
> Pacific islands. The caption under one 1943 picture of passengers in a
train
> (which included a GI) somewhere up north read that an influx of some one
> million US servicemen gave rise to 'social tensions' and included lines
from
> a GI's letter home which read:
>
> "We're somewhere in Australia where the sun is like a curse
> And each long day is followed by another slightly worse"
>
> which is interesting seeing as how we now advertise the Queensland climate
> to the world tourist trade as being, 'Beautiful one day, perfect the
next'.
>
> The exhibition is open to February, 2003 and if you're in Sydney well
worth
> a look.
>
> John.
>
>
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