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Abstract

Visual documenters made a major contribution to the recording of the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration. By far the best known were the professional photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, hired to photograph British and Australasian expeditions. But a great number of images – photographs and artworks – were also produced by amateurs on lesser known European expeditions and a Japanese one. These amateurs were sometimes designated official illustrators, often scientists recording their research. This paper offers a discursive examination of illustrations from the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899), German Deep Sea Expedition (1898–1899), German South Polar Expedition (1901–1903), Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903), French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) and Japanese Antarctic Expedition (1910–1912), assessing their representations of exploration in Antarctica in terms of the tension between emotive/aesthetic and systematic analytic/scientific motifs. Their depictions were influenced by their illustrative skills and their ‘ways of seeing’, produced from their backgrounds and the sponsorship needs of the expedition.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Millar, P
Keywords:	Heroic Era Antarctica, images, discourses
Journal or Publication Title:	Polar Record
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0032-2474
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1017/S003224741700002X
Copyright Information:	Copyright 2017 Cambridge University Press
Related URLs:	UTAS Profile: Millar, P
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