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TITLE: FRANK HURLEY #1
2003 15 X 19 INCHES
FRANK HURLEY:
1885-1962, Australian photographer
He led a rough-and-tumble youth in Australia, during
which time he ran away
from home. At 26, he became the photographer for Sir Douglas Mawson's
1911-1914 Australian Antarctic Expedition. His early photographic work,
included the
film 'Home of the Blizzard'. His work brought him to the attention of
Sir Ernest
Shackleton.
In 1914, Shackleton hired Hurley as the photographer for his British Imperial
Trans-Antarctic Expedition. When the Endurance sailed in October
1914, Hurley brought a range of
cameras, including a motion-picture camera. The crew was astonished by
the efforts to
which he would go to get an image: high in the ship's rigging, the back
of a
dogsled, the ship at night imprisoned in the ice.
After the Endurance was crushed in the ice
and abandoned, Shackleton
ordered the crew members to cut their personal possessions down to two
pounds each.
Hurley had to leave his precious cameras behind, but Shackleton allowed
him
to keep a selection of photographs and motion-picture footage. Hurley
documented the remainder of their adventure with only a handheld Vest
Pocket Kodak
camera and three rolls of film
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