Max and Olive: The Photographic Life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain

Overview

A new exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art will pay tribute to two of Australia's most influential photographers. Arriving in Melbourne from the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Max and Olive: The Photographic Life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain will showcase the shared lives and methods of the eponymous artists, whose modernist work during the thirties and forties changed the face of Australian photography.

Opening Tuesday, May 31, the free exhibition will feature 71 photographs from the NGA collection taken between 1934 and 1945. In addition to featuring a slew of iconic images, including Dupain's Sunbaker (pictured), the show will provide an insight into the working relationship between the pair, which included a brief marriage in 1939. Max and Olive will be on display until July 24.

Image: Max Dupain, Sunbaker 1937, gelatin silver photograph, 37.7 x 43.2 cm, courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant 198.