To sport themselves in the sun…

August 11th, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

This portrait of a young woman was created by David Mist for his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs. In the book the photograph appears as part of a montage showing Australians enjoying the outdoor life at the beach and on Sydney Harbour.

The young woman gazing intently out of the frame appears unaware of the camera. She and her companions are isolated from their context by the use of a shallow depth of field with only the sunlight on their hair and their casual clothing suggesting an outdoor location.

Post by Kathy Hackett, Photo Librarian

Photography by David Mist
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Tags: crowds, outdoors, portraits

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.