Images of the AUstralian Male lindt moffat dupain
The idea of the Australian male conjures up many images in people’s minds. ... However, in this era there was a prevalent mentality to the use of photography, now known as Colonialism, that rather than taking candid photographs or documenting an actual event or occurrence, artists would set up images, place people in the shots, tell them how to sit or stand in the photograph. ... One artist of this movement was John Lindt, whose image of The Noble Savage employs these ideas. This photograph taken in 1874 depicts and Australian Aboriginal man, seated, staring blankly at the camera. Although the impression is given that he is outdoors in his natural environment, he is actually in a set with a backdrop depicting the Australian landscape. ... Max Dupain, arguably one of Australia’s greatest photographic artists, has presented many images of the Australian male throughout the many years of his work. His style is of a modernist, which, in the Australian context, differs from the colonial style in that, “the pioneer consciousness had evolved into a national consciousness and then it became the task of individual artists to look at the national identity and see what was relevant to each of them E(Hoffert, 1993, pg 102). ... I feel this work portrays a cultural change in Australian men in this era. During the late 80’s and early 90’s there was a great deal of campaigning done to promote fitness amongst the Australian public, known as Life be in it. The campaign was promoted by a cartoon character named Norm, a large man of similar build to Jack, designed to represent the current physical and mental state of Australian men regarding health and fitness.