RAHS Special Lecture – On Max Dupain

Event Date & Time: Wednesday, 18 June 2025 @ 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Event Location: History House, 133 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000 AND Online via Zoom

Cost: Free

Event Description:

Max Dupain’s photographs – especially of Sydney – helped shape the image of modern Australia. Helen Ennis will discuss Dupain’s views and his legacy, and the challenges his voluminous archival resources pose to a biographical approach.

About the speaker:

Helen Ennis writes on Australian photography and her latest book, Max Dupain: A portrait, is her third biography. She began her career as Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, and from 2014–18 was Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory and Sir William Dobell Chair of Art History at the Australian National University. Helen is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and in 2021 was awarded the J. Dudley Johnson Medal by the British Royal Photographic Society for her contribution to the history of photography.