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Frank Hurley
Obelisk, 1915
"Obelisk", 1915. © Frank Hurley. Credits: Royal Geographical Society.
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Introduction
The photographic work entitled "Obelisk," captured by James Francis "Frank" Hurley during the legendary Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, seizes a moment of extraordinary visual and narrative tension: a colossal shard of ice, thrust upward by the unquantifiable pressures of the Antarctic pack ice in the Weddell Sea, rises like a natural monument, an obelisk of both destruction and majesty.
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