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The idea of the Australian male conjures up many images in people’s minds. ... In fact, conceptions of the ‘Aussie male Ehave developed greatly from the time of our settlement until the present, and
different artists have expressed these in many different ways in different eras
and movements. ... However, in this era
there was a prevalent mentality to the use of photography, now known as
Colonialism, that rather than taking candid photographs or documenting an actual
event or occurrence, artists would set up images, place people in the shots,
tell them how to sit or stand in the photograph. ... One artist of this movement was John Lindt, whose image of The
Noble Savage employs these ideas. This photograph taken in 1874 depicts and
Australian Aboriginal man, seated, staring blankly at the camera. Although the
impression is given that he is outdoors in his natural environment, he is
actually in a set with a backdrop depicting the Australian landscape. ...
Max Dupain, arguably one of Australia’s greatest photographic artists, has
presented many images of the Australian male throughout the many years of his
work. His style is of a modernist, which, in the Australian context, differs
from the colonial style in that, “the pioneer consciousness had evolved into a
national consciousness and then it became the task of individual artists to look
at the national identity and see what was relevant to each of them E(Hoffert,
1993, pg 102). The time difference between the work of these two artists
(Dupain’s work dates from to the 1920’s up until recent times) means that
the technology used in photography had advanced greatly.
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