Frank Hurley: A Photographer’s Life

McGregor, Alasdair

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First Edition. Hardcover. Photographer, filmmaker, writer, adventurer. Controversial, passionate, audacious. Frank Hurley was an extraordinary Australian, possibly most famous for his Antarctic photographs captured alongside expeditioners Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. From the early twentieth century until his death in 1962 Hurley created a stunning visual archive that chronicled the major events of the twentieth century, and Australia’s achievements both home and overseas. This book and the Hurley Collection in the National Library of Australia make clear this outstanding contribution and the lengths to which the man would go in order to convey the gravity of events.

For Hurley, image-making and exploration went hand-in-hand and he sought out experiences as a pioneer documentary film-maker, official photographer in two world wars, early aviator, and adventure and story-seeker in both the natural environment and in rapidly disappearing non-western worlds.

In this readable, definitive and wonderfully illustrated re-issued biography, Alasdair McGregor describes Hurley’s life and character in all its richness.

460 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 25 cm. #121221 Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.  |  Photographers — Australia — Biography.

Additional Information

AuthorMcGregor, Alasdair
Number of pages460 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
PublisherViking / Penguin
Year Published2004
Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

Book Condition

Near Fine

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