Series 1: Max Dupain papers including correspondence, copy letters, exhibition reviews, book drafts, clippings, and published journals and catalogues, [ca 1950s-1998]

MLMSS 10091/Boxes 1-6
MLMSS 10091/Box 7X

series

[ca 1950s-1998]

Textual Records, Clippings

9609342

1.30 metres of textual material (6 boxes and 1 outsized box) - manuscript; typescript; printed

The manuscript material includes letters, drafts for reviews and articles and note books. In addition there are newscuttings, Dupain’s own copies of journals containing articles by or about him and catalogues of his exhibitions.

BOX 1

“Max Dupain’s Sydney. The Book”. Includes preface by Jill White; text by Zeny Edwards; correspondence 1998-99 – mainly faxes, some on fading thermal paper which should be photocopied; photo captions; drafts, MS notes, photographs.

Draft of "Max Dupain’s Sydney", November 22, 1998.

Material re proposed book on Harold Cazneaux. Includes, notes, correspondence, 1976-78.

Various introductions by Max Dupain, Harry Seidler and David Moore to exhibition openings and books and clippings, 1964; 1980-1992.

Drafts (mainly manuscript) of articles, reviews, talks, biographical details. Subjects include Cecil Bostock, Leon Gellert, Russell Drysdale, Olive Cotton. Includes photocopy of a letter received from Norman Lindsay, Nov. 1932. 1981-1989.

Draft of letter from Max Dupain to Gail Newton, 28 Jan. 1979. Also MS drafts of articles and reviews by Max Dupain.

Notes by Clare Brown (first draft on her beginnings of Biography – never completed).

Search for Meaning with Caroline Jones. Transcription/notes of radio program re Max Dupain. Also Interview with Peter Adams and exhibition opening speeches, 1987-1988.

BOX 2

Miscellaneous – M.D. Writings etc. Includes newscuttings, letters to Ian North, rough notes, drafts of letters and biographical notes, 1980-1992.

Articles for 1980 Retro Book, draft layout of book, biographical notes and reviews, 1997-2000. Letter from Norman Lindsay, 1932.

Paris correspondence, documents concerning the photographs of the Australian Embassy, 1977-78.

Misc., letters, 1980s some 1970s. Mostly Drafts of letters sent. Includes letters from Harry Seidler.

Max Dupain Reviews 1980s of other photographer's exhibitions.

Misc. letters 1950s-1990s.

BOX 3

Seven notebooks.

Tracts for Pictorial Photographers by F. C. Tilney, 1923. Copy owned by Max Dupain and inscribed “Maxwell S. Dupain, Sydney Grammar School, College St., City”

“Photocopies of Clippings/letters etc. Max Dupain from Eric Sierius loaned to Jill White”.

Catalogues of exhibitions, mainly by Max Dupain, and related material, ca 1917-2000s. Includes "Catalogue of exhibition of Australian pictorial photography. Art Gallery, Department of Education Sydney, Nov. 14 to 26, 1917".

Interviews, transcripts and articles on Max Dupain, 1989-1991.

BOX 4

Max Dupain’s copies of journals and magazines containing articles and/or photographs by or about Max Dupain and other photographers including Harold Cazneaux and Damien Parer. Some journals are inscribed and/or annotated by Dupain, 1930s-1970s.

Art in Australia: a quarterly magazine. No. 7, 1919; February 1, 1923; Oct-Nov 1930; Nov 1936.

Australia beautiful, 1930.

Australia National Journal. January 1st, 1941; March 1st, 1941.

Australasian photo review, 1952.

Contemporary photography. Nov-Dec 1946; Vol. 1, no. 4 1947; Vol. 1, no. 5 1947; Vol. 1, no. 9 1948; Vol. 1, no. 10 1948; Vol. 2, no. 1 1948; Vol. 2, no. 8 1950; Vol. 2, no. 9 1950.

Commemorative Salon of photography: Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations.

Australian Centre for Photography. 1:1 February 1975-3:5 December 1977.

The Etruscan. September 1951; September 1966; December 1970

Light vision, no. 5

Photo digest, August 1960

Creative Australia and the Ballets Russes, 2009

BOXES 5-6

Clippings of articles from newspapers and magazines, letters, transcripts of interviews and manuscript notes, Max Dupain exhibition catalogues, various catalogues containing Dupain images, ca 1930-ca 2000.

BOX 7X

Published journals, magazines and newspapers containing articles about Dupain and Dupain images, 1999-2003.

Copyright status:: In copyright
Copyright holder:: Jill White has assigned copyright to the State Library of New South Wales
Approval for reproduction required: From copyright holder
Research & study copies allowed:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Jill White

Titled and dated by cataloguer.