In the early 1950s legendary photographer Max Dupain visited the heart of Australia’s wine world to capture the work of vignerons, grape harvesters and cellar hands.
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Dupain took the photographs on commission as part of his commercial practice and his skill in recording the Arcadian beauty of their everyday work.
Now, for the first time,Vintage – The lost works of Max Dupain – is on display in a collection of forgotten images of wine grape vintages in the Hunter.
The McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant images are held in the National Library of Australia but are little known within Dupain’s wider opus.
The equally significant but neverbefore-exhibited Tulloch photographs were gifted by Dupain to the family in an album of original photographs printed by Dupain himself.
Presented together, the Mount Pleasant and Tulloch photographs reveal a little known part of Australia’s farming past and the labours of love which produced some of the most memorable wines of the early 1950s.
Several of these Dupain images are part of an older collection of photographs which include photographs, artworks and objects reproduced in a new book by University of Newcastle historian Dr Julie McIntyre, which shows the importance of wine growing in early Australia.
■ The exhibition is on show at The University Gallery until December 1.
