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Meat queue, Sydney (1946, published later) by Max Dupain

‘Meat queue, Sydney’ was one in a series of pictures Sydney photographer Max Dupain undertook for the Department of Information. When interviewed by curator Helen Ennis in 1991 Dupain said:

“We were doing a story on queues after the war. They were all over the place – queues for buses, vegetables, fruit. I just happened to come across this butcher shop in Pitt Street, I think it was. Here they were all lined up, and I went around it, took a number of pictures, ultimately ending up with this sort of architectural approach with four of five females all dressed in black with black hats, not looking too happy about the world. Suddenly one of them breaks the queue when I’m focused up all ready to go, pure luck.”

Meat queue, Sydney (1946, published later) by Max Dupain

‘Meat queue, Sydney’ was one in a series of pictures Sydney photographer Max Dupain undertook for the Department of Information. When interviewed by curator Helen Ennis in 1991 Dupain said: “We were doing a story on queues after the war. They were all over the place – queues for buses, vegetables, fruit. I just happened to come across this butcher shop in Pitt Street, I think it was. Here they were all lined up, and I went around it, took a number of pictures, ultimately ending up with this sort of architectural approach with four of five females all dressed in black with black hats, not looking too happy about the world. Suddenly one of them breaks the queue when I’m focused up all ready to go, pure luck.”

maliciousglamour:

Cronulla Sandhills, Australia, 1937Photographer: Max Dupain Model: Noreen Hallard

maliciousglamour:

Cronulla Sandhills, Australia, 1937
Photographer: Max Dupain
Model: Noreen Hallard

agalabout5foot10:

Max Dupain - Group at Bondi 1940s

agalabout5foot10:

Max Dupain - Group at Bondi 1940s

susiesnapshot:

Photo by Max Dupain, 1930’s.

Fisk radiola advertisement: woman listening to the Fisk radiola (HT Art Gallery NSW )

Photo by Max Dupain, 1930’s.

Fisk radiola advertisement: woman listening to the Fisk radiola (HT Art Gallery NSW )