Published Books
Title: Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography
Publisher: Aperture & the Library of Congress
Editor: Verna Posever Curtis
First Edition © 2011, 256 pages, 9.5 x 11.5 in.
ISBN 978-1-59711-131-7
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As photography became an increasingly accessible medium in the twentieth century, the popularity of the photographic album exploded, yielding a wonderful range of objects made for varying purposes - to memorialize, document (officially or unofficially), promote, or educate, and sometimes simply to channel creative energy. Photographic Memory traces the rise of the album from the turn of the century to the present day, showcasing some of the most important albums in the history of the medium, as collected by the Library of Congress.
From an Alaskan expedition album containing Edward Sheriff Curtis's early work, to Walker Evan's extended suite of images in study for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, to a family album by Danny Lyon, the book provides an in-depth look at the history of photography through the handmade objects of some of its most famous practitioners, much previously unpublished. Photographic Memory includes albums by photographers and filmmakers such as Dorothea Lange, F. Holland Day, W.Eugene Smith, Leni Riefenstahl, Jim Goldberg, Duane Michals and Stephen Dupont.
Title: Afghanistan, or The Perils of Freedom
Publisher: The New York Public Library
Editor: Stephen C. Pinson
First Edition © 2008, 48 pages
Purchase: New York Public Library or Booklyn
In Afghanistan, award-winning Australian photographer Stephen Dupont has covered everything from civil war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990’s to the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom and the ongoing war on terrorism. This book, which accompanies Dupont’s first solo exhibition in the United States, features selections from his portfolio Afghanistan, 1993-2008, as well as photographs from the series Axe Me Biggie, whose title is phonetic rendering of the Dari for “Mister, Take My Picture!” Dupont made these portraits during the course of one day (March 13, 2006) with a Polaroid land camera in a makeshift studio along the streets of Kabul. Together, these photographs tell a story of poverty, warfare, and broken promises, but also of perseverance and hope, as they refocus attention on the state of Afghanistan today.
Selected Collections
Harvard University MA
University of California, Irvine, CA
Stanford University CA
University of San Diego CA
Title: Steam-India's Last Steam Trains
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, United Kingdom
First Edition © 1999, 96 pages
Purchase: Out of Print
STEAM is an extraordinary photographic record of the last steam trains in India. Dupont captures not only India’s fascination for the steam engine but also the sense of past which will never be revisited. From the railway lines to the workshops these photographs portray an industry on the edge of extinction, the pivotal role of the railways in Indian life and the drama of the Indian landscape. The project was shot over one year between 1994 and 1995 and traverses the entire Indian continent.
Title: Fight & Lutte
Publisher: Edition Braus, Germany & Marval, France
First Edition © 2003, 248 pages
Price: AUD$100.00
Purchase: Stephen Dupont
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FIGHT is a visual anthology of traditional wrestling around the world, Dupont spent a decade photographing wrestling in eight countries. Wrestling is the world’s oldest known sport and the most globally far-reaching. It is combat in its most primal form, pitting one man against another, in a contest of physical and mental domination. The project began in India and continued around the globe to Turkey, Gambia, Switzerland, USA, Mexico, Japan and Mongolia.
Title: War
Publisher: T&G Publishing, Australia
First Edition © 2009, 132 pages
Price: AUD$90.00
Purchase: Stephen Dupont, Stockists and T&G Publishers
WAR is a photographic collection of some of Australia’s most creative and award winning documentary photographers who have covered conflicts from Vietnam to present-day Afghanistan. They make up the Collective ° SOUTH. These photographers live a unique lifestyle and often work at great risk to themselves to tell the story. The objective of the photographers is to record evidence in a fair, truthful and informative way. They follow in the great Australian photographic tradition of pioneers: Frank Hurley, Hubert Wilkins, George Silk, Max Dupain and Damien Parer.
Title: Contact - Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection
Author: Shaune Lakin
Publisher: Australian War Memorial
© Australian War Memorial 2006, second edition 2008, 284 pages
Purchase: Australian War Memorial and Stockists
Contact presents a history of Australian war photography and of the Australian War Memorial’s collection of photographs. It delineates the photograph’s very particular function in providing an account of Australian military history and the sacrifice of Australians at war. Supporting this account is a selection of some 200 images that reflect the historical scope of the Memorial’s collection.
Title: Reportage: a retrospective 1999 - 2009
Editors: Stephen Dupont and Jacqui Vicario
Authors: Stephen Dupont, Jacqui Vicario, Jack Picone, Michael Amendolia, David Dare Parker
Publisher: Reportage
© Reportage 2010 Limited First Edition of 200 only, 100 pages
Sponsor: Momento Pro
Price: AUD$195.00
Purchase: Momento Pro
Reportage: a retrospective 1999-2009 is a companion catalogue to the outdoor exhibition shown at the National Art School in East Sydney on November 5 - 21, 2010. A collection of some of the most memorable images in the festival's history has been selected by Reportage's founding photographers - Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, David Dare Parker, Michael Amendolia with Festival Director Jacqui Vicario. Foreword by Robert McFarlane.
Hand Made Limited Edition Books
RASKOLS
Title: Raskols
Edition: 3/15 © Stephen Dupont 2006
Details: Sixty gelatin silver prints of photographs and hand etched text on pages assembled in accordion fold binding with stainless steel front and back covers. Book is housed inside rubber sealed inner lining, screw and bolted stainless steel case. Each book is unique with a different chemical etched photo on the case cover. Each page is hand printed in the dark room by the artist's printer Chris Reid and all etching and design is by the artist. All books are totally hand made by the artist. Dimensions are 23 x 19.5 inches with 60 pages. The edition is 15 with each one Unique. Edition # 3/15 is available. Editions #4 to #15 are made to order.
Price: On Request
A Selection of Images in the Book: Follow this link
Raskols (tok pisin for criminals) is a portrait series documenting the individuals behind the facelessness of gang culture in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby. The photographs are of Kips Kaboni or Red Devils and were taken in a safe house in 2004 over several trips. Many youth are driven to crime out of poverty and unemployment and the gang life offers them an identity within a fractured community. Often drawn along tribal lines, gangs provide both protection and welfare inside the poor settlements they come from. As law and order crumbles and corrupts inside Papua New Guinea, these gang members become the frontline to survival for many of its citizens.
Selected Collections
Joy Of Giving Something Inc. NYC
National Library of Australia
PANORAMAS VOL. 1, 1999 - 2005
Title: Panoramas Vol. 1, 1999 - 2005
Edition: AP/50 © Stephen Dupont 2007
Details: Originally shot in medium and 35mm formats with various films, all photographs are scanned from original film negatives and printed with a 12 color Roland D’Vinci on acid free 300GSM archival art paper with pure pigment archival pigment ink. All photographs are taken by the artist and fully copyrighted to the artist.
Edition of 50, 7 by 18 inches, 88 pages, 80 photographs, thumbnails with captions at book end, accordion fold binding with hard covers, in a clamshell box, 135 feet unfolded.
Price: AUD$7,500.00
Purchase: Stephen Dupont or Booklyn Artist's Alliance
A Selection of Images in the Book: Follow this link
Panoramas is a collection of six-years of the artist’s personal favorite panoramic photographs. A visual diary and cinematic journey... PANORAMAS is war, chaos, revelation, entrapment, isolation and peace...it is Humanity and Inhumanity.
Selected Collections
Aethenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany
Mata and Arthur Jaffe Collection of Books as Aesthetic Objects, Boca Raton, FL
Staatlicht Museen zu Berlin Kunstbibliothek (Art Library), Germany
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
State Library of Victoria, Australia
University of Connecticut, Dodd Research Center, Storrs, CT
University of California, Irvine, CA
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
University of Minnesota MPLS
St. Olaf College MN
SING - SING
Title: Sing - Sing
Edition: 1/15 © Stephen Dupont 2006
Details: Seventy one gelatin silver prints assembled in accordion fold binding with hard board front and back covers. Book comes inside hand made slip case box covered in woodblock printed canvas. Cover and seven inside pages contain original artworks made with woodblock and lino cut printing and calligraphy. Three triptychs assembled with gatefold sections. All pages are hand printed in the dark room by the artist's printer Chris Reid. Book dimensions are 6 x 7.5 inches, 32 feet unfolded. Edition is 15 with each one being Unique, available are #2 to #15. All photographs and design is by the artist and the books are all hand made by the artist. Each print is individually signed and titled on back.
Price: On Request
A Selection of Images in the Book: Follow this Link
Selected Collections
Minneapolis Institute of Arts MN
Private Collection