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01-12-2014, 11:23 AM
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Team Discovers Lost Set of Photos from 100-year-old Antarctic Expedition
Photographic negatives left a century ago in Captain Scott’s last expedition base at Cape Evans have been discovered and conserved by New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust. The negatives were found in expedition photographer Herbert Ponting’s darkroom and have been painstakingly conserved revealing never before seen Antarctic images.  The Trust’s conservation specialists discovered the clumped together cellulose nitrate negatives in a small box as part of the Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project which has seen more than 10,000 objects conserved at Scott’s Cape Evans hut. The negatives were removed from Antarctica by the Trust earlier this year. Detailed conservation treatment back in New Zealand separating the negatives has revealed twenty-two images. The photographs are from Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Ross Sea Party, which spent time living in Scott’s hut after being stranded on Ross Island when their ship blew out to sea.   One of the most striking images (shown above) is of Ross Sea Party member Alexander Stevens, Shackleton’s Chief Scientist, standing on-board the Aurora.  The photographs found in Captain Scott’s expedition base at Cape Evans, Antarctica required specialist conservation treatment. The Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZ) engaged Photographic Conservator Mark Strange to undertake the painstaking task of separating, cleaning (including removing mould) and consolidating the cellulose nitrate image layers. Twenty-two separate sheets were revealed and sent to New Zealand Micrographic Services for scanning using a Lanovia pre-press scanner. The digital scans were converted to digital positives.  Antarctic Heritage Trust The Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZ) is a not-for-profit organisation responsible for the conservation of five historic sites in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica including Ernest Shackleton’s, Robert ****** Scott’s and Edmund Hillary’s expedition bases through its Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project. Work is currently centred on conserving artefacts from Scott’s 1911 expedition base and conserving Scott’s 1902 expedition base. |
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01-12-2014, 05:04 PM
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| Your Mothers Nightmare... Poster Rank:411 Male Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 2,856 Mentioned: 4 Post(s) Quoted: 1036 Post(s)
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Re: Team Discovers Lost Set of Photos from 100-year-old Antarctic Expedition
Cool ures, but shouldn't these rich men have been fighting in the trenches instead of on a skiing holiday?
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01-18-2014, 04:36 AM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:582 BLACK SKULLS SHATTER Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 1,628
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Re: Team Discovers Lost Set of Photos from 100-year-old Antarctic Expedition
Super cool, Shackleton and his crew were a bunch of tough bastards. The book of the voyage was a great read for me.
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