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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: wolfnowl on October 24, 2011, 04:50:36 pm

Title: Antarctic Odyssey, Through the Eyes of a Polar Pioneer
Post by: wolfnowl on October 24, 2011, 04:50:36 pm

"The collector, Richard Kossow, told him that in 2001 he had purchased a portfolio of Antarctic photographs from the early 20th century. But these weren’t just any Antarctic photographs: They were from Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition of 1910-13, in which Scott and several other men, including Mr. Wilson’s great-uncle, Edward Wilson, died while returning from the pole."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/science/18pole.html

Mike.

Title: Re: Antarctic Odyssey, Through the Eyes of a Polar Pioneer
Post by: tom b on October 25, 2011, 02:21:23 am

It was interesting that Frank Hurley (http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/history-lens-itself/2005/07/26/1122143850088.html) was mentioned in the article. Here was a man that could manipulate photographs long before Photoshop existed.

Cheers,