HURLEY (FRANK) A good group of 60 views taken during Shackleton's Transantarctic 'Endurance' Exp...

HURLEY (FRANK) A good group of 60 views taken during Shackleton's Transantarctic 'Endurance' Expedition, 1914-1916, gelatin silver prints, a few with pencil notes on verso, 155 x 210mm. (20), 120 x 160mm. (7), and 85 x 145mm. or slightly smaller (23), [1914-1916, printed later]; and 12 other photographs, including views of Grytviken (2 showing Endurance), and illustrations used in South (72) Footnotes: Fine group of gelatin silver prints taken by Frank Hurley, who joined Shackleton's Endurance Expedition on 12 October 1914, throwing himself into his work, 'photographing life on board from all angles, including climbing the rigging to obtain the best viewpoints. Once the ship became stuck fast in the ice, Hurley photographed the activities of the crew and the dogs...' (Hempleman-Adams [and others], editors. The Heart of the Great Alone. Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography, 2009). This collection includes views of the Expedition members on the ice, the Endurance, icebergs and views, and the men with the James Caird at Elephant Island. Several of the images have the printer's proofing annotations on the verso, marked for use in the published edition of South. Provenance: Dr. A.H. Macklin (1889-1967), member of both Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic 'Endurance' Expedition (1914-1917), and the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition. He was one of the main photographers on this Expedition, and his diary was a major source of Wild's official account of the voyage; gifted to the vendor, Dr. Roland Lewis-Smith, who notes 'Dr & Mrs Macklin were near neighbours of mine in Cults, Aberdeenshire. Jean [Macklin's wife] was at school with my mother... After Alec's death and at the time I was going to work at South Georgia (1969-71) Jean invited me to look through.. some of Alec's Antarctic memorabilia. Since it was he (and James 'Scout' Marr) who had inspired my Antarctic career with the British Antarctic Survey she offered me a box of b/w prints of the Endurance and Quest...'. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing