The tension between emotive/aesthetic and analytic/scientific motifs in the work of amateur visual documenters of Antarctica's Heroic Era

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Millar, P
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
• Subjects: History and Archaeology; Other History and Archaeology; History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Hurley; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Record
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003224741700002X; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/115278

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...