A mid-winter glow, Weddell Sea, showing Endurance, 1915.
These are Frank Hurley’s famous early colour photographs of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated ‘Endurance’ voyage, as part of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917. Hurley was the official photographer on the expedition.
Early in 1915, their ship ‘Endurance’ became inexorably trapped in the Antarctic ice. Hurley managed to salvage the photographic plates by diving into mushy ice-water inside the sinking ship in October 1915.
—State Library of New South Wales
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Have you read Annie Dillard's essay on the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility? She writes about arctic explorers as a metaphor for a search for God. Doomed. Imperfect. Often fatal. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteNo, I haven't read it. Thanks for recommending it; I will definitely check it out.
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