Sunbaker [SEP] creator
Sunbaker
Sunbaker is a 1937 black-and-white photograph by Australian modernist photographer Max Dupain, depicting the head and shoulders of a man lying on a beach, taken from a low angle. The iconic photograph has been described as "quintessentially Australian", a "sort of icon of the Australian way of life". and "arguably the most widely recognised of all Australian photographs."
Composition.
The photograph depicts the head and shoulders of a man lying flat on his stomach on the sand. His
Operation Sunbaker
Operation Sunbaker was a military operation by the Services Reconnaissance Department of Australian Army in Timor in May 1945. The aim was to insert a team of operatives behind enemy lines. A B-24 Liberator A72-159 of 200 Flight RAAF taking the team was shot down on 17 May near Dili with the loss of all on board.
The dead were:
AIRCRAFT CREW
- F/O T.T. Biltoft
- F/Lt. H.R. Campbell
- F/O H.J. Clark
- F/O