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Capturing australia in black and white Photographer max dupain is famous for his images of australians on the beach.His photo of the sunbaker showing a man's upper torso lying in the sand, head rested on his arm and water beads glistening in the sunshine is perhaps one of the most iconic australian photographs ever captured. But as well as snapping australians at play at the seaside, max also turned his camera lens to industry, architecture, and mens moncler inland australia, taking on commissions for the commonwealth government's department of information in the post war years. Some of those images form a national archives of australia travelling exhibition, 'max dupain on assignment' which is on display at the gippsland art gallery in sale. National archives curator tracey clarke says many of the photos taken by dupain during this era were used by the government to encourage migration to australia. "They were tasked with taking photographs to promote australia to overseas for potential migrants to migrate over here.Dupain took photographs around australia to capture moncler men the essence of australian life to entice migration to australia during that time. "There's a great quote that he made about what his philosophy was behind his approach to documentary photography.He said;'Let one see and photograph Australia's way of life as it is, not as one would wish it to be'. "I think that you can see that in the photographs that he has taken.They are not glossed over like in advertising photography, moncler jackets and fashion photography.They really just show the simplicity of australian life during the 1940s and the natural beauty of the australian landscape during that time,"Ms clarke says. She says the dupain photographs are a significant part of the archives' photography collection. "It's unexpected to find these sorts of photographs in the archives collection, you just sort of associate the national archives with bureaucratic files, not necessarily artistic works and yet here they are. "What i really like about the photographs is that dupain, even though he was taking these photographs for a business purpose and they were to document essentially the business activities of a company they have this really aesthetic, artistic quality to them.They are quite distinct to some of the more typical government photographs that don't have that aesthetic quality. " All of the photographs are printed in black and white, dupain's choice of palette. "Max dupain preferred to photograph in black and white and i think that's because he really wanted to highlight and accentuate the line and the light and shade and form of his subjects.To do that in colour, you wouldn't have the same results, you wouldn't be able to have that same degree of contrast between light and dark and being able to show off the moncler shoes angles of unusual buildings.It wouldn't have had the same impact in colour. "