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