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Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History (2004)

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In the last decade of his life, the broke photographer Frank Hurley was forced to reinvent himself. He turned to pictorial and landscape photography, and created some of the most popular images of Australia after the Second World War.

Curator’s notes

The remarkable story of how Hurley became extremely successful in a new field in his sixties, creating images that helped define Australia here and overseas.