Writers @ Stanton: Helen Ennis

From award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century.

Max Dupain (1911-1992) was a major cultural figure in Australia, and at the forefront of the visual arts in a career spanning more than fifty years. During this time he produced a number of images now regarded as iconically Australian. He championed modern photography and a distinctive Australian approach.

Examining the sources of his creativity - literature, art, music - alongside his approaches to masculinity, love, the body, war, and nature, Max Dupain: A Portrait reveals a driven artist, one whose relationship to his work has been described as 'ferocious' and 'painful to watch'.

About the author

Helen Ennis writes on Australian photography and photographers. She was formerly Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia and Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, and others. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and was awarded the J. Dudley Johnston Medal by the British Royal Photographic Society in 2021.

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