While in Sydney we went to an exhibition of artefacts, photographs, documents and couture, some dating back to the 1830s, from the David Jones Department Store Archive. The archive is now being donated in perpetuity to the Powerhouse Museum Sydney for curation, digitisation, research and conservation. Amongst the materials are works by significant photographers such as Max Dupain (1911–1992) and Olive Cotton (1911–2003). This photograph is of one of Max Dupain's cameras dating from 1959 with some of the many works by Dupain taken for the David Jones Department Store in the background.
That's a great shot and that would make for an interesting exhibition. I collect Australian Trade Tokens - they were pennies and half pennies issued directly by companies in the very early days of the colony - to compensate for a shortage of official coins. They were only legal tender for a couple of years. David Jones was one of those original companies!!I am lucky enough to have one of their tokens. :)
Wonderful information about Max Dupain!
Thanks for the links
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You probably already have it but I found it really interesting.
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