Only when you take the dust jacket off this book is it revealed – printed around the hardback itself. The most famous photograph by Australia’s most famous photographer, the most iconic Australian image of the last century – Sunbaker, c. 1938.
Max Dupain once ruefully joked that his idea of hell was to be condemned to print the negative for eternity, but as his biographer, Helen Ennis, notes, he nonetheless kept on printing it. And it is still being printed and sold today.
