When the old whaler Terra Nova left London harbor on June 1, 1910, the destination was the southern ice surface of the world. The leader of the expedition was none other than Robert Falcon Scott, who at the beginning of the voyage was already a British national hero and had the respect of English society through previous exploratory voyages. On board was a team of men whose worldview saw Antarctica as a natural fortress to be conquered and besieged. At the time, no one knew that few of the men would return to London and that this would be Scott's last voyage. Among them was the photographer Herbert George Ponting. The British photographer had already had an eventful life by this time. After leaving his childhood home in Salisbury, southern England, he tried his luck in California. The stories about the new country and the possibilities had captivated him, and so he bought an orchard in sunny California. Herbert Ponting was unable to realize his dream, returned to England and instead devoted himself to photography.
Ponting's talent lay in a narrative visual language. He was able to sell his first photographs to various magazines. The photographer took a liking to the combination of journalism and illustration and published a coffee table book of photographs he had collected in Japan. His experience and photographic talent brought him aboard the Terra Nova. The preferred medium Herbert Ponting used for his photographs was glass plates. Although photographic film had already been invented, he preferred to use the traditional technique for his photographs. In addition, he used a film camera that could record short sequences. Herbert Ponting was one of the oldest expedition members and spent a lot of time at base camp. Here he had set up a small darkroom. His motifs were the men in thick, chunky clothing, the horses and the unique continent with its white shores. Unique is a self-portrait that shows the photographer at work and is of exceptional quality in the windy and cold conditions.
Herbert Ponting did not participate in the race to the South Pole. He took one last photo of Scott as the team departed. He himself returned to England. He wanted to sort his photographic plates and prepare his photos so that Scott could use them for lectures when he returned. The expedition brought the participants to the brink of economic ruin. Scott was to return as a successful explorer and generate income by presenting the photographs. After Scott's death, Ponting returned to the Arctic once again and took more photographs. The photographer left behind unique photographs of a landscape that few people have seen in this state and that will never be the same again.
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.jpg "Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers and Evans at the South Pole by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "The Second Western Party The Day They Were Picked Up By The Ship, 1912-1913 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Captain Oates on the Terra Nova with the Siberian Ponies by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Debenham, Gran, and Taylor in their Cubicle, 18 May 1911, 1913 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Cave Carved Out of the Ice by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "The Crest of Fuji by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Entering McMurdo Sound - Cape Bird and Mount Erebus by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "A Weddell Seal About to Dive at West Beach, Cape Evans, Antarctica, 1911 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Midwinter Day Dinner, 22nd June by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Amida, The Buddha, 1910 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "The Depot Laying and Western Parties on Their Return to Cape Evans by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Nara, the Heart of Old Japan by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "The Indispensable Geisha, 1910 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Ski Shoes For Use with Finnesko by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "The Midnight Sun in McMurdo Sound by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Moonlight at Kiyomizu-Dera, 1910 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Three Views of the Dog Teams Led by Meares and Dimetri on the")
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.jpg "Lieut. Evans and Nelson Cutting a Cave for Cold Storage, 12 January 1911, 1913 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Meares with Osman, leader of the dogs (from")
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.jpg "The Crest of Fuji, a Telephotograph from Shoji by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "C. S. Wright, January 1912 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Furling Sail in the Pack, c1910-1913 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Dr. Simpson Sending Up a Balloon by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Kinkakuji The Golden Pavilion by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Lieut. Rennick and a Friendly Penguin, 1911, 1913 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "A Berg Calving from a Glacier at Cape Crozier by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Peasant Women Heading Barley, 1910 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Summer Negligee at Kumamoto, 1910 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "The Western Geological Party Just After They Were Picked Up by the Ship")
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.jpg "The Hut After The Winter, c1911, 1913 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "One of the Motor Sledges, 1911 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "An Adélie Penguin About To Dive by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Frost-Smoke, 1911 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Cape Crozier: The End of the Great Ice Barrier by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "E. W. Nelson with the Nansen-Petersen Insulated Water-Bottle by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Mount Erebus Over a Water-Worn Iceberg by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Japanese Ladies Going to the Shrines, Nikko by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Dr. Wilson Watching the First Rays of Sunlight Being Recorded by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "The Tenements Cherry-Garrard, Bowers, Oates, Meares, Atkinson, 9 October 1911 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Fuji and the Shira-Ito Waterfall, 1910 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Hut Point and Observation Hill by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Mount Erebus Showing Signs of Activity, c1910 by Herbert Ponting")
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.jpg "Ainu Man and Women at Home by Herbert Ponting")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1012125).jpg "Pitching the tent by Herbert Ponting")
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