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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial
• Sale Date:
  24 Nov 2019 ~ 12noon (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  362
• Lot Description:
  Max Dupain (Australian, 1911 – 1992) - Brave New World, c.1933
  Silver gelatin photograph
  50 x 37cm
  signed and dated in pencil at lower right; additionally signed and dated (the print: 1970s) in ink by Rex Dupain in authentication stamp verso,
• References:
  Illustrated in Max Dupain: Photographs, A.N.G., 1991, p.10.
• Notes:
  The title of the work refers to Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World (1932), in which human reproduction and life itself are tightly controlled by a global government. Dupain was sympathetic to the book’s warning about the loss of individuality and human agency at the hands of industrialism. What is particularly compelling about this image is the way that, as in Huxley’s book, photography itself is understood as potentially an oppressive tool of the state. The naked woman is literally controlled by photographic technology: physically constrained by the camera’s technical apparatus, her image is embedded in a range of photographic printing processes.
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Photography

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