Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: April 6, 2012 to May 28, 2012
Location: Severn Studio, Brantwood
City/Town: Coniston LA21 8AD Cumbria
Website or Map: http://www.brantwood.org.uk/v…
Phone: 015394 41396
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: Brantwood Trust
Latest Activity: Feb 1, 2012
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A Scott Centenary event in association with The Royal Geographical Society.
Historic photographs of this ill-fated Antarctic expedition taken by `camera artist` Herbert Ponting tell an unforgettable tale both epic and human in scale. In 1910 Captain Robert Falcon Scott set out for the Antarctic from which he did not return. Having reached the South Pole, he died on the return journey along with his colleagues just 17.5km (11 miles) from the safety of a supply depot.
Ponting's images offer a poignant and revealing glimpse of life in this hostile environment. From the beauty of Antarctica's icescapes, to the men relaxing on the Terra Nova's deck; from surveying the landscape, to an impromptu hair cut - the exhibition captures intimate, everyday moments on the expedition providing an absorbing visual diary that completes the familiar and well documented story for the race to the South Pole.
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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