'Walking into the Face of a High Wind'
A large sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph (320 × 440 mm, flush-cut on the original thick card mount), recently matted (visible image size 312 × 435 mm) using archival materials, ready for framing (or long-term storage in its custom-made Mylar sleeve).
Light brown discolouration about the bottom edge; thin horizontal mark across the print about 50 mm from the bottom edge; overall, in very good condition.
This is one of several photographs by Hurley depicting expeditioners leaning into the high winds around the Winter Quarters at Cape Denison. This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly larger version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the title (as above) and the catalogue reference number 64 added in ink. The full title of the Australian exhibition catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other Photographic Studies by Frank Hurley' (small octavo, 16 pages plus 8 full-page plates and the title wrappers; printed in Adelaide by G. Hassell & Son). A small advertisement appeared in the Adelaide 'Advertiser' on Saturday 25 September 1915, announcing a 'South Polar Exhibit.... until October 6. This Exhibition is your only opportunity of viewing Historical Relics of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, and Frank Hurley's Unexcelled Photographic Reproductions'. Provenance: Ainslie Roberts AM (1911-1993, surrealist painter, illustrator and photographer; president of the Adelaide Camera Club, 1944-45, and life member from 1945); by descent.
Item #122912
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