Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC OBE was an Australian modernist photographer.
Dupain in 1937
Sunbaker Max Dupain, 1975 silver gelatin print from original 1937 negative
Dupain Jean with Wire Mesh (1936)
Adelaide street scene, (1946)
Sunbaker is a 1937 black-and-white photograph by Australian modernist photographer Max Dupain. It depicts the head and shoulders of a man lying on a beach in New South Wales, taken from a low angle. T
Max Dupain
…South Wales, he photographed the head and shoulders of his English friend Harold Salvage, lying on the sand at Culburra Beach. The photograph, titled "Sunbaker", began to receive wide recognition after a retrospective at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in 1975. Prints were purchased in 1976 by…
The first version of Sunbaker (note the clasped hand). Max Dupain, 1937–1948. Silver gelatin print from 1937 negative. State Library of New South Wales.
'Sunbaker' Harold Salvage, Culburra Beach, New South Wales, 1937, by Max Dupain, digital positive copied directly from original negative.