The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era
Visual documenters made a major contribution to the recording of the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration. By far the best known were the professional photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, hired to photograph British and Australasian expeditions. But a great number of images photographs an...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:115278 2023-05-15T13:49:03+02:00 The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era Millar, P 2017 https://doi.org/10.1017/S003224741700002X http://ecite.utas.edu.au/115278 en eng Cambridge University Press http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003224741700002X Millar, P, The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era, Polar Record, 53, (3) pp. 245-256. ISSN 0032-2474 (2017) [Refereed Article] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/115278 History and Archaeology Other History and Archaeology History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified Refereed Article PeerReviewed 2017 ftunivtasecite https://doi.org/10.1017/S003224741700002X 2019-12-13T22:15:01Z Visual documenters made a major contribution to the recording of the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration. By far the best known were the professional photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, hired to photograph British and Australasian expeditions. But a great number of images photographs and artworks were also produced by amateurs on lesser known European expeditions and a Japanese one. These amateurs were sometimes designated official illustrators, often scientists recording their research. This paper offers a discursive examination of illustrations from the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (18971899), German Deep Sea Expedition (18981899), German South Polar Expedition (19011903), Swedish South Polar Expedition (19011903), French Antarctic Expedition (19031905) and Japanese Antarctic Expedition (19101912), assessing their representations of exploration in Antarctica in terms of the tension between emotive/aesthetic and systematic analytic/scientific motifs. Their depictions were influenced by their illustrative skills and their ways of seeing, produced from their backgrounds and the sponsorship needs of the expedition. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Polar Record eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Antarctic Hurley ENVELOPE(51.350,51.350,-66.283,-66.283) Polar Record 53 3 245 256 |
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Visual documenters made a major contribution to the recording of the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration. By far the best known were the professional photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, hired to photograph British and Australasian expeditions. But a great number of images photographs and artworks were also produced by amateurs on lesser known European expeditions and a Japanese one. These amateurs were sometimes designated official illustrators, often scientists recording their research. This paper offers a discursive examination of illustrations from the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (18971899), German Deep Sea Expedition (18981899), German South Polar Expedition (19011903), Swedish South Polar Expedition (19011903), French Antarctic Expedition (19031905) and Japanese Antarctic Expedition (19101912), assessing their representations of exploration in Antarctica in terms of the tension between emotive/aesthetic and systematic analytic/scientific motifs. Their depictions were influenced by their illustrative skills and their ways of seeing, produced from their backgrounds and the sponsorship needs of the expedition. |
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The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era |
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The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era |
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The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era |
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The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era |
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