Sunbaker
Sign in to saveSunbaker is a 1937 black-and-white photograph by Australian modernist photographer Max Dupain. It depicts the head and shoulders of a man lying on a beach in New South Wales, taken from a low angle. The iconic photograph has been described as "quintessentially Australian", a "sort of icon of the Australian way of life", and "arguably the most widely recognised of all Australian photographs."
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sunbaker is referenced by 11 other articles, and connects out to New South Wales, modernism and Australian dollar.
It sits within the topics 1937 photographs, Australian photographs and Black-and-white photographs.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- negative
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- New South Wales
- Depicts
- beach
- Material used
- silver bromide
- Creator
- Max Dupain
- Collection
- National Gallery of Victoria
- Location
- Australia
- Image
- Sunbaker maxdupain nga76.54.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- inception
- 1937-00-00
- Commons category
- Sunbaker
- color
- black-and-white
- inventory number
- PH216-1976
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Composition
- Reception and legacy
- References
Sunbaker is a 1937 black-and-white photograph by Australian modernist photographer Max Dupain. It depicts the head and shoulders of a man lying on a beach in New South Wales, taken from a low angle. The iconic photograph has been described as "quintessentially Australian", a "sort of icon of the Australian way of life", and "arguably the most widely recognised of all Australian photographs."
==Composition==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sunbaker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.