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Early Photography: Glacier, New Fortuna Bay – Frank Hurley

Posted on the 13 April 2021 by Cendrinemedia @cendrinemedia

Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography...

Early photography: Glacier, New Fortuna Bay – Frank Hurley

Title: Glacier, New Fortuna Bay

Date: 1915

Location: South Georgia (island), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Photographer: Frank Hurley (1885-1962)

Process: colour glass phototransparency (Paget plate)

Note: The Paget process, an early color photography process, was patented by G.S. Whitfield in 1912 but discontinued a decade later.

This is an image of Ernest Shackleton's 'Endurance' expedition to Antartica

Source and information: State Library of New South Wales


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