Ponting with his camera sledge.

£750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913). Ponting was of the first people to utilise a handheld cine camera in Antarctica. The two machines, known as a cinematographs, which he took with him were rudimentary, and could only capture brief film sequences, however during the his time in the Antarctic Ponting recorded roughly 25,000 feet of film. In addition, Ponting captured some of the first known colour still images in Antarctica using autochrome plates. He is joined in the photograph by two sledge dogs acquired by Meares for the expedition. The Terra Nova expedition was supposed to be the high-water mark of the Golden Age of Antarctic exploration; led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition was to have been the first to reach the South Pole, marking the event with the planting of the Union Jack flag. However the more professionally equipped Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen got there first. Nevertheless Scott's expedition will always be the one best remembered on account of the tremendous courage and bravery shown by Scott and his companions, Wilson, Bowers, Oates, and Evans on their return from the Pole in appalling conditions - perhaps best exemplified by Lawrence 'Titus' Oates who walked from the tent into a blizzard whilst suffering from frostbite and gangrene, knowing that he was not going to survive the journey but hoping that his self-sacrifice might help the others survive. The photographs were originally publis

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