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There is a photograph by Dupain, The Floater, that has helped set the tone of this book.

Dupain tells us in one of his publications that it was a very spontaneous image taken at the baths in Norwood, a suburb of Sydney.

It dates from an anxious period in Australian history in the lead up to the outbreak of the Second World War, which may have had a bearing on why Dupain said for him it expressed the essence of calm and peace.

The year 1939, however, was also the year of his marriage to Olive Cotton.

Dupain made two slightly different negatives of the subject of the floating figure.

I'd love you to read it.