Max Dupain Photographs. Introduction by Hal Missingham
Sydney, Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1948.
Quarto, 12 pages plus 51 full-page plates (from Dupain photographs).
Quarter contrasting cloth lettered in silver on the spine, and in yellow on the front cover; cloth a little marked and sunned; top corners slightly bumped; a very good copy.
One of 1000 copies; this copy is signed by Max Dupain (and it may well have been a signed edition). The three-page introduction by Hal Missingham, at that stage the Director of the National Art Gallery of NSW, is followed by a three-page contribution by Max Dupain, 'Some Notes About Photography'. The final paragraph contains the following: 'Nearly all the photographs in this volume have been made with the intention of securing a fragmentary impression of passing movement or changing form ... This little collection is a cross section of that which I consider to be my best work since 1935.... Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and, by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they create and live. I profoundly believe it can accomplish this'.
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