Masters of Photography - Frank Hurley

Links/sources:

http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/picturescatalogue?action=PCSearch&mode=search&...
http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms883
http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/ebindshow.pl?doc=on_26/a090;thumbs=1
http://images.rgs.org/search.aspx?eventID=17
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/endurance/
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/222.asp
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hurley
http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-hurley.html
http://photo-web.com.au/frankhurley/postcards.htm
http://www.awm.gov.au/captured/official/hurley/index.asp
http://www.visitandlearn.co.uk/TopicalFactfiles/EnduranceObituaries/FrankHurl...
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Videos BBC on Hurley, brought to you by Rangefindergeneral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsZOsvWTmI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKh7PIP2HfA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN1YhfAIh4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czOn3SFL1_M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtaw2RG0Oi4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXZ1HKD2T74

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hurley

James Francis "Frank" Hurley, OBE (15 October 1885 16 January 1962) was an Australian photographer, film maker and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces during both world wars.

His artistic style produced many memorable images but he also used staged scenes, composites and photographic manipulation for which he has been criticised on the grounds that it diminished the documentary value of his work.

Hurley was the third of five children to parents Edward and Margaret Hurley and was raised Glebe, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. He ran away from home at the age of 14 to work on the Sydney docks. When he was 17 he bought his first camera, a 15 shilling Kodak Box Brownie which he paid for at the rate of a shilling per week. He taught himself photography and set himself up in the postcard business.

At the age of 25, in 1910, Hurley learned that Australian explorer Douglas Mawson was planning an expedition to Antarctica; Hurley cornered Mawson on a train and asked to be made expedition photographer. Mawson did just that, while the manager of a local Kodak branch who Hurley was in debt to provided photographic equipment. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition departed in 1911 and lasted until 1914.

Hurley was also the official photographer on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set out in 1914 and was marooned until August 1916; Hurley produced many pioneering colour images of the Expedition using the then-popular Paget process of colour photography. He later compiled his records into the documentary film South in 1919.

In 1917, Hurley joined the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) as an honorary captain and captured many stunning battlefield scenes during the Battle of Passchendaele. In keeping with his adventurous spirit, he took considerable risks to photograph his subjects, also producing many rare colour photographs of the conflict. His period with the AIF ended in March 1918. Hurley also served as a war photographer during World War II.

Photographs by Hurley of the Antarctic are held by a number of institutions. Notable collections include the Australian War Memorial, National Library of Australia, Scott Polar Research Institute, Royal Geographical Society, and the South Australian Museum.

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• Frank
• Hurley
• Antarctica
• Explorer
• Shackleton
• Endurance
• Mawson
• Cybelephotography

[superpelic]

Excellent selection of Frank Hurley!!! You picked the right music as well!!!

[PhotographyMasters]

thanks, regards, Cybele

[aTnavarrow]

Wonderfully composed TY

[KCAZYT]

An excellent production, well done. If you get the chance please have a look at : SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC. Birdie, the doctor and me.

This is a video that I made featuring a song composed by Pete HUNT and performed by him with his colleague Micky LYNE. I have laid it over photos taken by Frank Hurley on Capt. Robert falcon Scott's last expedition to the South Pole from which he and 4 colleagues never returned.

I would value your comments. Thanks for a great film.

Roy (Youtube name: KCAZYT)

[emoxmasochist]

@roaming2

Some of Yann Tiersen's.

[roaming2]

What's the name of the song?

[r1ch4rd69]

very interesting.really enjoyed your video.

[rvphotographers]

This is brilliant, he is my absolute hero in so many ways.Ive been fortunate to visit many of Franks locations where he has taken images.Ive even visited his last home in Sydney.

Cheers

Ross

[MuseOfMyHeart]

wow.. really.. amazing pictures..