The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott
The legend of Captain Scott, icon of fortitude and courage, who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole in March 1912, is an enduring one. However, many do not know that throughout his journey, in the face of extreme climatic conditions and technical challenges, Scott used a camera to capture breathtaking polar panoramas, geographical and geological scenes, and action photographs of the explorers and their animals, remarkable for their technical skill as well as for their poignancy. Lost, fought over, neglected, and finally resurrected, Scott’s final photographs are collected together here for the first time: a humbling testament to the last great expedition of the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration.
The exhibition includes a small selection of the original unique vintage prints, publicly displayed for the first time, along-side vintage prints by H.G. Ponting, Scott’s official photographer and modern prints made from Scott’s originals. All works on display will be for sale.
Looking up the Gateway to Mount Hope, from Camp 31, Shambles Camp, Great Ice Barrier, 9 December, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Looking up the Gateway to Mount Hope, from Camp 31, Shambles Camp, Great Ice Barrier, 9 December, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Ponies on the march, Great Ice Barrier, 2 December, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Camp under the Wild Mountains, night camp, Beardmore Glacier, 20 December, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Camp under Cathedral Rocks, Spring Journey, Ferrar Glacier, September, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Mount Erebus, from the sea ice, Cape Evans, October, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Ponies on the march, Great Ice Barrier, 2 December, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Ponies on the march, Great Ice Barrier, 2 December, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Portrait of Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers in front of Mount Erebus, Cape Evans, October, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Herbert Ponting photographing on the lower slopes of Mount Erebus, Cape Evans, October, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Winter Quarters, expedition hut, Cape Evans, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Portrait of Captain L. E. G. Oates, Cape Evans, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Foundering in soft snow, PO Edgar Evans and Captain Oats repairing sledge, Beardmore Glacier, 13 December, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Birdie Bowers and ponies shelter behind an ice wall, Great Ice Barrier, November, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
George Simpson or PO Edgar Evans, Ferrier Glacier during Spring Journey, September, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm
Tom Crean with Bones, and Wilson with Nobby, Cape Evans, October, 1911
Archival pigment print
59 x 42 cm