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Herbert George PontingWW-1927-159999
1927·Gelatin silver print·Image: 9.8 x 7.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 16.3 x 11.9 cm (6 7/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
Frame: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) (Framed with 2011.206, .207, .209)
Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2011
Catalogue
- Year
- 1927
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 9.8 x 7.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.) Sheet: 16.3 x 11.9 cm (6 7/16 x 4 11/16 in.) Frame: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) (Framed with 2011.206, .207, .209)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Herbert George Ponting
Artist
Herbert George Ponting
Photography
Herbert George Ponting was a British photographer and cinematographer best known for his documentation of Scott's Antarctic expedition of 1910-1913. Working with large-format glass plates and early motion picture equipment in extreme conditions, he created some of the first substantial visual records of polar exploration. His photographs and film footage established conventions for expedition photography that persisted throughout the twentieth century. Ponting's work combined scientific documentation with compositional sophistication, treating landscape and human endurance as subjects of formal complexity.
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- Herbert George Ponting
- Year
- 1927
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 9.8 x 7.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.) Sheet: 16.3 x 11.9 cm (6 7/16 x 4 11/16 in.) Frame: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) (Framed with 2011.206, .207, .209)
- Watts ID
- WW-1927-159999
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified