b'79362MAX DUPAIN (AUSTRALIAN, 19111992)Brave New World, c.1933Silver gelatin photographsigned and dated in pencil at lower right;additionally signed and dated (the print: 1970s)in ink by Rex Dupain in authentication stamp verso,50 x 37cmIllustrated in Max Dupain: Photographs, A.N.G., 1991, p.10.The title of the work refers to Aldous Huxleys dystopian novel, Brave New World (1932), in which human reproduction and life itself are tightly controlled by a global government. Dupain was sympathetic to the books warning about the loss of individuality and human agency at the hands of industrialism. What is particularly compelling about this image is the way that, as in Huxleys book, photography itself is understood as potentially an oppressive tool of the state. The naked woman is literally controlled by photographic technology: physically constrained by the cameras technical apparatus, her image is embedded in a range of photographic printing processes.$8,00010,000363WW2 TOBRUK, Egypt and Palestine album of photographs belonging to CAPT. L.L. SMITH, 2nd A.I.F. together with an attractive album of photographs (many with captions) detailing Capt. Smith rural life before WW2. (2)$120200 364WOLFGANG GEORG SIEVERS (19132007)International Harvester, NATCO Multiple Spinole Drill,362Geelongc.1950, vintage silver gelatin photograph,photographers stamp and titled in pencil verso,50.5 x 39.5cm. Laid down on original board.PROVENANCEMax Dupain estate.Illustrated in Calado, Wolfgang Sievers: Life Line 1933-1993 [Portugal, 2000] plate 92.Sievers was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Professor Johannes Sievers, an art and architectural historian with the German Foreign Office until his dismissal by the government in 1933. His mother was Herma Schiffer, a writer and educator of Jewish background, who was Director of the Institute for Educational Films. In 1938, he was retained as a teacher at the Contempora, but decided to emigrate to Australia following rumours of the schools imminent closure by the authorities. He had arranged for his photographic equipment to be transported, but was briefly questioned by the Gestapo, then conscripted as an aerial photographer for the Luftwaffe. He fled the country immediately, going first to England in June.In Australia, Sievers opened a studio in South Yarra and when war was declared, he volunteered for the Australian Army and served from 1942 to 1946. Following demobilisation, he established a studio at Grosvenor Chambers in Collins Street, initially drawing many of his commissions from fellow European immigrants including the architects Frederick Romberg, and Ernst Fuchs who had arrived from Vienna. In later life Sievers was active in Australia, Germany and Austria with research into the emigration of war criminals to Australia from 1990 to 1998. In 2007, he donated several hundred photographs from his archive, worth up to A$1 million, to raise money for justice and civil liberties causes.$5,0007,500364'