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导语:弗兰克·赫利的一组拍摄于1914年到1916年的照片将一次不成功的南极之旅再次带回了现实。通过这组照片,人们了解到这艘名叫“耐力号”的船及一小群水手和科学家(总共27人)的一次南极探险的故事。
A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.
Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding—undoubtedly firstrate photojournalism—if they had been made last week.In fact,they were shot from 1914 through 1916,most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难),by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival.Many of the images were stored in an ice chest,under freezing water,in the damaged wooden ship.
The ship was the Endurance,a small,tight,Norwegianbuilt threemaster that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists,27 men in all,to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea.From that point,Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent.The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done.Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.
As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and wellresearched story The Endurance,adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort.Scott's last journey,completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger,caught the world's imagination,and a film made in his honor drew crowds.Shackleton,a onetime British merchantnavy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908,started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.Frank Hurley,a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic,was hired to make the images,most of which have never before been published.
一组新的照片将一次不成功的南极之旅带回了现实。
如果弗兰克·赫利的照片是上周拍摄的,那将是非常出色的——毫无疑问是一流的新闻摄影。事实上,这些照片是拍摄于1914年到1916年,大部分是在一次海船失事之后,由一个没有生存希望的摄影师拍摄的。许多图像被储存在冰面下一艘破船里面的冰柜里。
这艘船名叫“耐力号”,是挪威建造的一艘小型三桅船,结构紧凑。它是为了将欧内斯特·沙克尔顿爵士、一小群水手和科学家(总共27人)带到南极洲威德尔海最南端的海岸而设计建造的。从那时起,沙克尔顿想用狗拉的雪橇强行通过这片大陆。这