1900-1930
Frank Hurley
Frank Hurley got a job with cave & Co, a postcard business. He gained reputation from the risks involved with taking his pictures like this picture he took standing in front of this steam train.
Douglas Mawson, an Australian Explorer, hired Frank Hurley for an Antarctic Expedition where he took pictures such as
“Out in the blizzard at Cape Dension”
“Ice Mushroom”
“A cavern beneath the coastal ice-cliffs with Whetter standing near entrance”
Antarctic expedition with Shackleton
Hurley’s famous pictures taken on this expedition was of their ship Endurance known as the Bride of the Sea when it got frozen in the ice.
Some of his less famous pictures taken on this expedition include the crew, the dogs, the snowscapes and the launching of the James Caird from Elephant Island.
“The members who remained behind at Elephant Island, Shackleton Expedition”
“Lupoid, so named because of his wolfish appearance”
“The crystal canoe”
“Launching of James Carid”
The Mad Photographer
Frank Hurley got his nick name (The Mad Photographer) from the troops because of his daring pictures.
Frank Hurley was the first official photographer in World War 1 and took some of the only known colour photos of the war, he served alongside George Hubert Wilkins.
Frank Hurley’s major work of this period was of the third battle of Ypres in Flanders. They include ruined buildings, Australian troops, and battered landscape.
“Looking through a ruined cathedral window on to a battlefield cemetery”
“Horse-drawn Australian artillery silhouetted along the Poperinghe-Ypres Road, Flanders”
“The morning after the first battle of Passchendaele”
Frank Hurley believed his images helped capture the reality of the war and battle.