what was the photographer guys name?
ummm i just finished watching the movie and i forget allready , was he franks
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There is an outstandingly good book that I bought a year or two ago entitled: 'South with Endurance. Schackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917. The Photographs of Frank Hurley'.
It is a large book full of Hurley's photos - some even in colour and for that era that was remarkable. The shots on the movie are incredibly similar to those in Frank Hurley's photo collection.
The book is large and beautiful. Its ISBN is 0-7475-5879-5.
It is well worth having to anyone who loves either the Arctic/Antarctic or is an afficionado of good photographs.
I had been coveting that book in hardback for a while but was unwilling to pay the €50. I finally bought it, in paperback, at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. Excellent book, marvellous photographs. The SPRI is worth a visit too.
shareIf you enjoyed Hurley's photography, look for two books by Herbert Ponting. Ponting served as Robert Scott's photographer on Scott's last expedition. Ponting didn't take moving pictures but his photography is wonderful:
The Great White South: Traveling with Robert F. Scott's Doomed South Pole Expedition
Scott's Last Voyage: Through the Antarctic Camera of Herbert Ponting
Ponting's speciality was I believe the lantern slide.
If I am not mistaken, Ponting had a few of his images published in The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Gerrard was one of the men who found Scott's tent in spring 1912.
For shear beauty of Antarctic imagery take a look at Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 1910-1912 by Edward Adrian Wilson and H. G. R. King (published posthumously). Wilson was Scott's second in command and accompanied his friend on the polar dash of 1911-12 and he died with Scott. Wilson was a remarkable artist specialising in birds (see also Birds of the Antarctic by Edward Wilson (Brian Roberts, Editor).
Enjoy!
Ponting did make movies which eventually formed a documentary "Ninety Degrees South". He wasn't as cinematically inventive as Hurley (none of this hanging over the bows stuff) but his shots of Scott, Wilson, Bowers and Evans sledging and making camp in their tent are very poignant when you know what will happen to them a year later.
shareFrom what I've seen of both I prefer Hurley's Antarctic work (and he would go to any length to get a shot) but you have to take your hat off to these two men who pursued their craft in such challenging conditions!
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