Body Culture: Max Dupain, photography, and Australian culture, 1919–1939
National Gallery of Victoria & Peleus Press, $89.95 hb, 210 pp
Dark Energies, Long Shadows
Like many a portentous new (electronic) media advocate today, the US photographer Paul Strand opined in his 1922 essay ‘Photography and the New God’ that photography unified science and art and therefore offered a new creative path. God talk was not inappropriate, because the period also saw the widespread sway of vitalism, the metaphysical doctrine that living organisms possess a non-physical inner force or energy that lends them life.
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Body Culture: Max Dupain, photography, and Australian culture, 1919–1939
by Isobel Crombie
National Gallery of Victoria & Peleus Press, $89.95 hb, 210 pp
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