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info@salto-ulbeek.comERNEST SHACKLETON’S IMPERIAL TRANS-ANTARCTIC (ENDURANCE) EXPEDITION 1914-1917
The photographs of Frank Hurley
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) collection
Limited Edition of Platinum-Palladium prints
When Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, sank in the Weddell Sea after being trapped and crushed by sea ice, his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917 turned into one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Documented by the Australian photographer Frank Hurley, it has gone on to inspire historians and the general public for over a century. The approximately two hundred glass plate and celluloid negatives brought back by Hurley from the expedition constitute one of the greatest treasures in the history of human exploration.
For historical reasons, Hurley’s Endurance negatives are divided between the archives of the Royal Geographical Society in London and the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge. Whilst the Scott Polar Research Institute preserves a small selection of negatives, the majority are kept and preserved in the collections of the the Royal Geographical Society. Thanks to an ongoing collaboration between the Royal Geographical Society and Salto Ulbeek Publishers, forty-two of these have for the first time been printed using the platinum-palladium process. This contributes to securing the material and visual legacy of the Endurance expedition.