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The Contemporary Camera Groupe was a short-lived Sydney association of twelve photographers and graphic artists, formed by Max Dupain in November 1938 in protest at the continued dominance of pictorialism, which had been on show in that year’s sesquicentenary Commemorative Salon.
Its single exhibition opened at David Jones’s Market Street gallery on 21 November 1938 and is generally regarded as the first Australian photography exhibition to present a predominantly modernist approach, taking in abstraction, montage and surrealist themes. |
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| Cecil Bostock, Phenomena, 1938 |
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An Introduction to the 1938 Contemporary Camera Groupe exhibition
A selection of the photographs exhibited
A list of the exhibitors List of known works on exhibition
The Sydney Morning Herald controversy for earlier - the Commemorative Salon of Photography
The Questions I Didn’t Ask: Cecil Bostock, Max Dupain and the Contemporary Camera Groupe, Gael Newton, November 2026
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