Polar Portraits

Author : Huw Lewis-Jones
Publisher : Conway Maritime Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 184486099X

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Face to Face by Huw Lewis-Jones Pdf

A lavish account of pioneering polar photography and modern portraiture, Face to Face brings together in a single volume both rare, unpublished treasures from the historic collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge, alongside cutting-edge modern imagery from expedition photographer Martin Hartley. The first book to examine the history and role of polar exploration photography, Face to Face is a unique project of unsurpassed quality. Face to Face features the very first polar photographs, the first portraits of explorers, some of the earliest photographs of the Inuit, the first polar photographs to appear in a book, and rare images never before published from many of the Heroic-Age Antarctic expeditions. Almost all the historic imagery - daguerreotypes, magic lantern slides, glass plate negatives and images from private albums - that have been rediscovered during research for this book have never been before the public eye. Alongside fifty of the world’s finest historic polar portraits from the SPRI collections are fifty modern-day images by leading expedition photographer Martin Hartley, who has captured men and women of many nations, exploring, working, and living in the Polar Regions today. In addition to this remarkable collection will be a foreword written by respected adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, two fascinating essays examining polar photography ‘then’ and ‘now’ by polar historian Dr Huw Lewis-Jones; and an afterword by the best-selling author Hugh Brody. Polar Portraits is the first volume in the Face to Face series. Companion volumes include Ocean Portraits (9781844861248) and Mountain Heroes (9781844861392).

Author : A. G. E. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043393375

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Polar Portraits by A. G. E. Jones Pdf

A collection of papers from books and journals on polar and maritime subjects, particularly whaling, gathered by A.G.E. Jones over many decades.

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415970242

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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic by Beau Riffenburgh Pdf

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Author : Kari Herbert
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926812632

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Polar Wives by Kari Herbert Pdf

The lives and adventures of seven intrepid women are revealed in “this gem of a book . . . as captivating as the northern landscape itself” (Portland Book Review). Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable women whose husbands became world-famous for their Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. As the daughter of a polar explorer, Herbert brings a unique and intimate perspective to these stories. In her portraits of the gifted sculptor Kathleen Scott; eccentric traveler Jane Franklin; spirited poet Eleanor Anne Franklin; Jo Peary, the first white woman to travel and give birth in the High Arctic; talented and determined Emily Shackleton; Norwegian singer Eva Nansen; and her own mother, writer and pioneer Marie Herbert, Kari Herbert blends deeply personal accounts of longing, betrayal, and hope with stories of peril and adventure. Previously consigned to historical footnotes, these pioneering women played vital roles in their husbands' expeditions. Their stories—many drawn from previously unpublished journals and letters—take us not only to the polar wastelands but also through war-torn Macedonia, the lawless outback of Australia, and the plague-riddled ancient cities of the Holy Land.

Author : Huw Lewis-Jones
Publisher : Conway Maritime Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 1844861244

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Face to Face by Huw Lewis-Jones Pdf

A lavish collection of spectacular photography above and below the ocean waves, this book is a stunning visual celebration of the explorers and scientists, naval officers and yachtsmen, fishermen and divers, who have harnessed, surveyed and investigated the great oceans of the world.

Author : William James Mills
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576074237

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Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes] by William James Mills Pdf

Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.

Author : Mark Mahaney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578581337

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Polar Night by Mark Mahaney Pdf

Mark Mahaney's Polar Night is a passage through a rapidly changing landscape in Alaska's northernmost town of Utqiagvik. It's an exploration of prolonged darkness, told through the strange beauty of a snowscape cast in a two month shadow. The unnatural lights that flare in the sun's absence and the shapes that emerge from the landscape are unexpectedly beautiful in their softness and harshness. It's hard to see past the heavy gaze of climate change in an arctic town, though Polar Night is a visual poem about endurance, isolation and survival.

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857904911

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Polar Crusader by Michael Smith Pdf

Wordie's career as both an explorer and academic geologist opened up his participation in Shackleton's epic Endurance expedition of 1914-1916, where he proved one of the most resilient of those stranded in appalling conditions on Elephant Island. He continued to lead arduous expeditions well into his forties, while building his reputation as an academic and mentor. During the Second World War, he was instrumental in safeguarding British strategic interests in the Antarctic territories, and later rose to be President of the Royal Geographical Society and Master of St John's College, Cambridge. He died in 1962. Michael Smith captures all the drama of an extraordinary life lived at the edge and goes a long way to establishing James Wordie in his rightful place in the pantheon of great British explorers.

Author : Elizabeth Edwards,Sigrid Lien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317005537

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Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs by Elizabeth Edwards,Sigrid Lien Pdf

Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of these photographs within museums. This book brings into focus the ubiquitous yet entirely unconsidered work that photographs are put to in museums. The authors' argument is that there is an economy of photographs in museums which is integral to the processes of the museum, and integral to the understanding of museums. The international contributors, drawn from curators and academics, reflect a range of visual and museological expertise. After an introduction setting out the range of questions and problems, the first part addresses broad curatorial strategies and ways of thinking about photographs in museums. Shifting the emphasis from curatorial practices and anxieties to the space of the gallery, this is followed by a series of case studies of exhibitionary practices and the museum strategies that support them. The third section focuses on the role of photographs in the museum articulation of ’difficult histories’. A final section addresses photograph collections in a digital environment. New technologies and new media have transformed the management, address and purposing in photographs in museums, from cataloguing practices to streaming on social media. These growing practices challenge both traditional hierarchies of knowledge in museums and the location of authority about photographs. The volume emerges from PhotoCLEC, a HERA funded project on museums and the photographic legacy of the colonial past in a postcolonial and multicultural Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780316071932

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Bear Portraits by Anonim Pdf

A top celebrity portrait photographer, Jill Greenberg has a unique ability to coax powerful emotions out of her subjects - whether human or animal. Her portraits of bears, collected here for the first time, surprise and engage. We encounter cubs as cute as a child's Teddy, grizzlies that look like they might swallow you whole, and Polar bears seated in Sphinx-like tranquility. Full-grown brown bears, grizzlies, black bears, Polar bears, and bear cubs are photographed on location against a portrait backdrop. The poses and facial expressions are at turns oddly comedic, pensive, terrifying, and sometimes unexpectedly human. Alive with Greenberg's signature lighting and seen through the unique perspective of her lens, these startling bear portraits bring us face to face with our fears and fantasies.

Author : Huw Lewis-Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786722461

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Imagining the Arctic by Huw Lewis-Jones Pdf

Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention and persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts and striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes and the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration and its pull on the public imagination.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UCSD:31822009653833

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The Polar Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. Bulkeley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137402172

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Bellingshausen and the Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819-21 by R. Bulkeley Pdf

This book examines the little studied story of Bellinghausen, and includes the fullest biography of the celebrated Russian explorer ever published, and with thoughtful discussion of the achievements and limitations of the expedition and suggestions for further research.

Author : Peter J Kitson,William Baker,Indira Ghose,Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000558937

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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 1 by Peter J Kitson,William Baker,Indira Ghose,Susan Schoenbauer Thurin Pdf

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

Author : David Betounes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781441911636

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Differential Equations: Theory and Applications by David Betounes Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory of ordinary differential equations with a focus on mechanics and dynamical systems as important applications of the theory. The text is written to be used in the traditional way or in a more applied way. In addition to its use in a traditional one or two semester graduate course in mathematics, the book is organized to be used for interdisciplinary courses in applied mathematics, physics, and engineering.