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  • Nora Heysen: The Artist of Outstanding Portraits

    Nora Heysen is acclaimed as one of Australia’s most successful female artists and country’s first female war artist.

    Revered as the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture, Heysen was born on January 11, 1911, in Hahndorf, South Australia.

  • Helmut Newton: The King of Kink

    Helmut Newton is celebrated as one of the most influential photographers of all time, whose subversive approach to subject matter and form brought an edge to his editorial spreads.

     Born Helmut Neustädter into a Jewish family in Berlin on October 31, 1920, Helmut Newton dubbed the “King of Kink”.

  • MAX DUPAIN: THE PIONEER OF MODERNISM IN AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY

    Capturing the architecture, the landscape, the beaches and the cities of Australia and creating images of sharp focus, boldness and graphic composition with simplicity and directness, the Australian photographer, Max Spencer Dupain, is celebrated as one of the earliest and most outstanding champions of modernism in Australia.

    Best known for his photographs of Australian and their beach culture, Dupain was born on April 22, 1911, in Ashfield, Sydney.