Frank Hurley the man who made history

History tells the story of one of the last great imperial adventurers, Australian photographer, Frank Hurley. He captured images of the world's most remote place, the Antarctic, and his pictures are now amongst the most valuable ever taken. However, it now appears that some of them were elaborate fakes. He pioneered the use of colour photography, helped invent the documentary film, and risked his life to bring back images from some of the great events of the 20th century. However, experts are divided over this master of illusion. Was he a giant of photography or just a conjurer with a camera? Hurley's manipulations and uncompromising attitudes would cause conflict throughout his career. His technique of combining images from different negatives into a single, dramatic tableau branded them 'fakes' by his superiors and even today the controversy continues over their value as historical records.

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"History tells the story of one of the last great imperial adventurers, Australian photographer, Frank Hurley. He captured images of the world's most remote place, the Antarctic, and his pictures are now amongst the most valuable ever taken. However, it now appears that some of them were elaborate fakes. He pioneered the use of colour photography, helped invent the documentary film, and risked his life to bring back images from some of the great events of the 20th century. However, experts are divided over this master of illusion. Was he a giant of photography or just a conjurer with a camera? Hurley's manipulations and uncompromising attitudes would cause conflict throughout his career. His technique of combining images from different negatives into a single, dramatic tableau branded them 'fakes' by his superiors and even today the controversy continues over their value as historical records."@en
"Follows Hurley's footsteps in the early 1900's to the Antarctic, Belgium, Papua New Guinea, Israel and Australia to see if he was a giant of photography or a conjurer with a camera. One of the last of the renowned imperial adventurers, he captured the first images ever seen of some of the world's most inhospitable and uncharted territories. But historians now know that some of "Captain Hurley's" photos were elaborate concoctions--and a few were outright fakes. His snapshots of Antarctic heroes, world wars, and mysterious natives in faraway jungles seized the imagination of all who saw them. But were those images transformed in the darkroom to the level of myth?"@en
""One of the last of the great imperial adventurers, Frank Hurley captured some of the earliest images of the worlds most inhospitable and uncharted territories. The Man Who Made History is a new retrospective which retraces Hurley's footsteps, from the Antarctic, Belgium, Papua New Guinea and Israel to Australia, revealing a grand illusionist with an instinctive appreciation for the power of the photograph. Born in Sydney in 1885, Hurley is considered to have created some of the most enduring images of the first century of the photographic age. He is best known as the cinematographer on Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition to the Antarctic, and is also credited as being an early pioneer of colour photography, helping invent the documentary film and risking his life to bring back images from the great events of the 20th century. While his images of Antarctic heroes, World Wars, phenomenal landscapes and mysterious natives in faraway jungles seized the imagination of all who saw them, today, as experts examine his vast archive, it's often difficult to determine what is myth and what is reality. Was he a giant of photography or just a conjurer with a camera?"--ABC website."
"History tells the story of one of the last great imperial adventurers, Australian photographer, Frank Hurley. He captured images of the world's most remote place, the Antarctic, and his pictures are now amongst the most valuable ever taken. However, it now appears that some of them were elaborate fakes. He pioneered the use of colour photography, helped invent the documentary film, and risked his life to bring back images from some of the great events of the 20th century. However, experts are divided over this master of illusion. Was he a giant of photography or just a conjurer with a camera? Hurley's manipulations and uncompromising attitudes would cause conflict throughout his career. His technique of combining images from different negatives into a single, dramatic tableau branded them 'fakes' by his superiors and even today the controversy continues over their value as historical records."
"Australian photographer, Frank Hurley captured the first images of Antarctic heroes, World Wars, phenomenal landscapes and mysterious natives in far away jungles, seizing the imagination of all who saw them. He made myths of them all, then set about creating a mythical persona for himself as 'Captain Hurley', fearless explorer, master story-teller and creator of some of the most enduring and extraordinary images of the twentieth century."
"Follows Hurley's footsteps in the early 1900's to the Antarctic, Belgium, Papua New Guinea, Israel and Australia to see if he was a giant of photography or a conjurer with a camera."
"Australian photographer, Frank Hurley captured the first images of Antarctic heroes, World Wars, phenomenal landscapes and mysterious natives in far away jungles, seizing the imagination of all who saw them. He made myths of them all, then set about creating a mythical persona for himself as C̜aptain Hurley , fearless explorer, master story-teller and creator of some of the most enduring and extraordinary images of the twentieth century."@en
"Australian photographer, Frank Hurley, captured the first images of Antarctic heroes, World Wars, phenomenal landscapes and mysterious natives in far away jungles, seizing the imagination of all who saw them. He made myths of them all, then set about creating a mythical persona for himself as Captain Hurley, fearless explorer, master story-teller and creator of some of the most enduring and extraordinary images of the twentieth century."@en
"Retraces the footsteps of Australian photographer Frank Hurley, one of the last great imperial adventurers, from the Antarctic, Belgium, Papua New Guinea and Israel to Australia, capturing some of the earliest images of inhospitable and uncharted territories."@en
""Tells the story of one of the last great imperial adventurers, Australian photographer, Frank Hurley. It retraces Hurley's footsteps across the globe at a time when the world was a much different place. " -- website."@en
"Summary: Australian photographer, Frank Hurley captured the first images of Antarctic heroes, World Wars, phenomenal landscapes and mysterious natives in far away jungles, seizing the imagination of all who saw them. He made myths of them all, then set about creating a mythical persona for himself as C̜aptain Hurley , fearless explorer, master story-teller and creator of some of the most enduring and extraordinary images of the twentieth century."@en