Max & Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton & Max Dupain

@ Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre

Free

Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre will open its summer exhibition, Max & Olive: the photographic Life of Olive Cotton & Max Dupain, which will showcase 70 works drawn from the photography collection of the National Gallery of Australia and will  include some of the most memorable and iconic works of these two photographers from  the 1930s and 1940s.  

Belinda Hanrahan, Director of Hazelhurst Gallery said this will be an opportunity to see wonderful works by these two well-known Australian photographers who shared their lives and studio.

Olive Cotton and Max Dupain are key figures in Australian visual culture. They shared a long and close personal and professional relationship. This exhibition looks at their work made between 1934 and 1945, the period of their professional association; this was an exciting period of experimentation and growth in Australian photography, and Cotton and Dupain were at the centre of these developments.

This is the first exhibition to look at the work of these two photographers as they shared their lives, studio and professional practice. Looking at their work together is instructive; they were often shooting the same subjects, or pursuing subjects and pictorial effects in similar ways. Comparisons articulate and make apparent Dupain's more structured – even abstracted – approach to art and to the world; similarly, comparisons highlight Cotton's more immersive relationship to place, with a particularly deep and instinctual love of light and its ephemeral effects.

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