January 5, 1911 (printed 2012). Scott Polar Research Institute blindstamp in margin; presumably numbered 16/30 and annotated in pencil verso. Platinum palladium print.
image: 19 9/16 x 14 3/16 in. (49.7 x 36cm)
sheet: 23 11/16 x 18 5/16 in. (60.2 x 46.5cm)

Provenance: Chris Beetles Fine Photography, London, United Kingdom.
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C.
EXHIBITED:
"The Photographers 2012," Chris Beetles Fine Photography, London, October 17 - November 9, 2012.

Expedition photographer Herbert Ponting was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1870. He was already an established photographer, having traveled extensively throughout Asia and Europe as a professional photojournalist, when he embarked on a three-year expedition to Antarctica. In 1911, he joined the Terra Nova to Cape Evans, Ross Island, where he took glass-plate photographs and short movies-called cinematographs, at the time-of the barren, hostile tundra. Ponting's work captures the southernmost tip of the globe during what is considered to be the "Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration."