Newly published Ann Elias,
Camouflage Australia. Sydney AU: Sydney University Press, 2011.
"Camouflage Australia tells a once secret and little known story
of how the Australian government accepted the advice of zoologist
William John Dakin and seconded the country's leading artists and
designers, including
Max Dupain and
Frank Hinder, to deploy optical
tricks and visual illusions for civilian and military protection. Their
work was an array of ingenious constructions for the purpose of disguise
and subterfuge. Drawing on previously unpublished photographs and
documents,
Camouflage Australia exposes the story of fraught
collaborations between civilian and military personnel who disagreed
over camouflage's value to wartime operations and the usefulness of
artists to warfare."
More