Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Max Dupain

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian photographer Max Dupain.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC OBE was an Australian modernist photographer.

Australian - Photographer | April 4, 1911 - July 27, 1992

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Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses.

Max Dupain

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

Max Dupain

Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.

Max Dupain

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.

Max Dupain

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create.

Max Dupain

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Max Dupain

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