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Under the Sun: Re-imagining Max Dupain's Sunbaker
6 ImagesUnder the Sun: Re-imagining Max Dupain's Sunbaker by the Australian Centre for Photography "That bloody sunbaker," was what Max Dupain dubbed his most famous photograph. The iconic Australian image of a bather on a beach – that bronzed skin, big wet hand and the sand and sky stretching into eternity - was little loved by its creator. Yet it's Dupain's Sunbaker - his so-called "simple affair" of English friend Harold Cyril Salvage lying in the sand on the NSW south coast - that has become perhaps Australia's most famous photograph and a convenient national symbol of our laid-back culture and love of the sea.
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