Max Dupain OBE set up his studio in Sydney in 1934. Through the 1930s he took portraits and advertising shots, photographed ballet dancers and musicians for the ABC and gained exposure in the lifestyle magazine The Home.
84 portraits in the collection
Olive Cotton (1911-2003) was one of Australia's pioneering modernist photographers.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Emerson Curtis (1898-1996) was an illustrator and painter who arrived in Sydney from England in 1924.
2 portraits in the collection
Sydney Ancher (1904-1980), architect, graduated from Sydney Tech College in 1930.
1 portrait in the collection
Antonia Blaxland (1929-1989), photographer, was the great-great granddaughter of Gregory Blaxland, leader of the successful Blue Mountains expedition in 1813.
1 portrait in the collection
Kerry Dundas, son of artist Douglas Dundas, gained an interest in photography as a student at Sydney Grammar school.
8 portraits in the collection
Damien Parer (1912-1944), photographer and filmmaker, became friends with Max Dupain in the thirties, often taking photographs with him on excursions to the beach and bush.
2 portraits in the collection
Adam Knott (b. 1966) began taking photographs for local newspapers as a schoolboy in St George, South Sydney.
7 portraits in the collection
Harry Seidler AC OBE (1923-2006), architect and designer, was born in Vienna and completed his early architectural studies in England and Canada.
3 portraits in the collection
