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Olive Cotton (Hardcover)
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Olive Cotton (Hardcover)
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A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian
photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer -
beautifully written and deeply moving. Winner of the 2020 Canberra
Critics' Circle Award for Biography Winner of the University of
Queensland Non Fiction Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards 2020
Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography for 2020 Shortlisted 2022
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Non Fiction Award
Longlisted for the 2020 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
2020 Olive Cotton was one of Australia's pioneering modernist
photographers, whose significant talent was recognised as equal to
her first husband, the famous photographer Max Dupain. Together,
Olive and Max were an Australian version of Frida Kahlo and Diego
Rivera or Ray and Charles Eames, and the photographic work they
produced in the 1930s and early 1940s was bold, distinctive and
quintessentially Australian. But in the mid-1940s Olive divorced
Max, leaving Sydney to live with her second husband, Ross
McInerney, and raise their two children in a tent on a farm near
Cowra - later moving to a cottage that had no running water,
electricity or telephone for many years. Famously quiet, yet
stubbornly determined, Olive continued her photography despite
these challenges and the lack of a dark room. But away from the
public eye, her work was almost forgotten until a landmark
exhibition in Sydney in 1985 shot her back to fame, followed by a
major retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2000,
ensuring her reputation as one of the country's greatest
photographers. Intriguing, moving and powerful, this is Olive's
story, but it is also a compelling story of women and creativity -
and about what it means for an artist to try to balance the
competing demands of their art, work, marriage, children and
family. 'Absorbing ... illuminating and moving' Inside Story
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