The ‘Endurance’ frozen in 76/35 South, 1915

Frank Hurley (Australian photographer, filmmaker, and writer, 1885-1962); The ‘Endurance’ frozen in 76/35 South, 1915; Glass Paget plate phototransparency; Frank Hurley colour Paget plates of Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antartica, 1915; Frank Hurley visited the Antarctic six times between 1911 and 1932. The Paget Colour Plate system used by Hurley was not like today’s colour film. It used a ruled set of colour lines, called a screen, sandwiched with a standard black and white glass half plate negative. The subject was exposed through the colour screen, which acted like a series of colour filters, onto the black and white negative. The negative was reverse processed into a positive transparency and placed back in contact with the screen, giving the effect of a colour photograph.