Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2008 22:25:22 GMT
Antartic Witness
Date: 1 Jan 2008 to 17 Feb 2008
Time: Tuesday - Saturday 10.30 -4.30 Sundays 2.00 - 4.00
Location: Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery
Cost: Free
Antarctic Witness Photographs taken by Frank Hurley, official photographer to Shackleton’s 1914 Trans-Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole, are on display at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery in an exhibition entitled Antarctic Witness.
Of the 500 photographs Hurley had taken on this legendary expedition, only a small number were saved when the expedition ship the Endurance was crushed. The powerful images exhibited are taken from the surviving original glass plate negatives, which have been preserved in the photographic collection of the Royal Geographical Society.
Date: 1 Jan 2008 to 17 Feb 2008
Time: Tuesday - Saturday 10.30 -4.30 Sundays 2.00 - 4.00
Location: Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery
Cost: Free
Antarctic Witness Photographs taken by Frank Hurley, official photographer to Shackleton’s 1914 Trans-Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole, are on display at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery in an exhibition entitled Antarctic Witness.
Of the 500 photographs Hurley had taken on this legendary expedition, only a small number were saved when the expedition ship the Endurance was crushed. The powerful images exhibited are taken from the surviving original glass plate negatives, which have been preserved in the photographic collection of the Royal Geographical Society.