Herbert Ponting - Photographs from the Collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. New York Tuesday, August 29, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Chris Beetles, Limited, London

  • Artist Biography

    Herbert Ponting

    British • 1870 - 1935

    Herbert Ponting was a self-taught photographer with a particular interest in stereographs. He turned his hobby into a career in 1900 after winning a world prize for a telephoto of San Francisco Bay, and another work, Mules at a Californian Roundup, that became a centerpiece for Kodak's exhibit at the World Fair in St. Louis. Afterward, he started selling stereograph negatives for publications in European and American magazines and was invited to New York for syndicated magazine work. These documentary photography contributions required him to travel the world extensively.  In 1902 and 1905 he made several trips to Japan and published a highly-acclaimed book on Japanese culture entitled Lotus-land Japan. In 1909 and from 1910 to 1912 he was the photographer for the expeditions to the Antarctic led by Captain R.F. Scott, thus becoming the first official photographer ever to join an Antarctic expedition. The work from his Antarctic series received critical acclaim for their outstanding use of light, composition and dramatic effects of ridges, castle icebergs and polar icebergs. 

     

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Grotto in a Berg, Terra Nova in the distance, 5 January

1911
Platinum palladium print, printed 2012.
19 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (49.5 x 35.9 cm)
Scott Polar Research Institute blindstamp in the margin; numbered 16/30 and annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

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Photographs from the Collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C.

Works from the Collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington D.C.
New York Exhibition 17 – 29 August 2017