Filtering 'ways of seeing' through their lenses: representations of Antarctic exploration by lesser known Heroic Era photographers. ...

• Main Author: Millar, PM
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University Of Tasmania 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Hurley; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23206751; https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Filtering_ways_of_seeing_through_their_lenses_representations_of_Antarctic_exploration_by_lesser_known_Heroic_Era_photographers_/23206751

Photographers made a major contribution to the recording of the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration. By far the best known photographers were the professionals, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, hired to photograph British and Australasian expeditions. But a great number of photographs were also taken on Belgian, German, Swedish, French, Norwegian and Japanese expeditions. These were taken by amateurs, sometimes designated official photographers, often scientists recording their research. Apart from a few Pole-reaching images from the Norwegian expedition, these lesser known expedition photographers and their work seldom feature in the scholarly literature on the Heroic Era, but they, too, have their importance. They played a vital role in the growing understanding and advancement of Antarctic science; they provided visual evidence of their nation's determination to penetrate the polar unknown; and they played a formative role in public perceptions of Antarctic geopolitics. The objective of this study is to ...