Links/sources: www.nla.gov.au nla.gov.au image.sl.nsw.gov.au images.rgs.org www.kodak.com www.awm.gov.au commons.wikimedia.org www.greatwar.nl photo-web.com.au www.awm.gov.au www.visitandlearn.co.uk ------------ Videos BBC on Hurley, brought to you by Rangefindergeneral www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com ------------------- en.wikipedia.org James Francis "Frank" Hurley, OBE (15 October 1885 16 January 1962) was an Australian photographer, film maker and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces during both world wars. His artistic style produced many memorable images but he also used staged scenes, composites and photographic manipulation for which he has been criticised on the grounds that it diminished the documentary value of his work. Hurley was the third of five children to parents Edward and Margaret Hurley and was raised Glebe, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. He ran away from home at the age of 14 to work on the Sydney docks. When he was 17 he bought his first camera, a 15 shilling Kodak Box Brownie which he paid for at the rate of a shilling per week. He taught himself photography and set himself up in the postcard business. At the age of 25, in 1910, Hurley learned that Australian explorer Douglas Mawson was planning an expedition to Antarctica; Hurley cornered Mawson on a train and asked to be made expedition ...
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