Lot 110

Church Street Photographic Centre, Melbourne c.1980s
Private collection, Melbourne

Newton, G., Max Dupain: Photographs 1928-80, The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980, p. 26 (illus. p. 64, pl. 26, another example)
White, J., Dupain's Beaches, Chapter and Verse, Sydney, 2000 (illus. p. 69, another example)

"It was a simple affair. We were camping down the south coast and one of my friends lept out of the surf and slammed down on to the beach to have a sunbake - marvellous. We made the image and its been around, I suppose as a sort of icon to Australian life. ' Max Dupain from a transcript of an interview between Max Dupain and Helen Ennis, 1 August 1991, published in Max Dupain: Photographs (exhibition catalogue) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1991, p. 18