{"product_id":"9780642279330-secondhand-frank-hurley-a-photographers-life","title":"Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life","description":"\n Photographer, filmmaker, writer, adventurer. Controversial, passionate,\naudacious. Frank Hurley was an extraordinary Australian, possibly most famous\nfor his Antarctic photographs captured alongside expeditioners Sir Douglas\nMawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. From the early twentieth century until his\ndeath in 1962 Hurley created a stunning visual archive that chronicled the\nmajor events of the twentieth century, and Australia's achievements both home\nand overseas. This book and the Hurley Collection in the National Library of\nAustralia make clear this outstanding contribution and the lengths to which the\nman would go in order to convey the gravity of events. \n For Hurley, image-making and exploration went hand-in-hand and he sought\nout experiences as a pioneer documentary film-maker, official photographer in\ntwo world wars, early aviator, and adventure and story-seeker in both the\nnatural environment and in rapidly disappearing non-western worlds. In his\ncompulsion to bring the reality of the world to audiences, he clashed with many\nregarding his techniques. In particular, Sir Charles Bean, Australia's official\nwar historian, objected to the use of \"composite\" pictures. The image  Dawn of Passchendaele  features an added\ncloudburst which adds a \"melancholic religiosity and passion of a\nFlemish masterpiece\". \n In his later years, Hurley\ntravelled throughout the country on a mission to capture Australia for\nAustralians: taking images of landscape, modern cities, industry and\nagriculture. Among other works, he made a film of the building of the Sydney\nHarbour Bridge and he also became involved with ABC radio as a frequent\ncontributor to the children's programme  The\nArgonauts. \n Hurley was an enigmatic character, dedicated to the 'perfect' picture,\nsometimes forsaking family and work commitments to take up another offer for\noverseas documentary and photographic opportunities. He saw little of the\ndevelopment of his four children as he travelled the world capturing the exotic\nfor others. \n In this readable, definitive and wonderfully illustrated re-issued\nbiography, Alasdair McGregor describes Hurley's life and character in all its\nrichness. Hurley kept diaries throughout his life and McGregor uses these\ninsights to give a picture of a truly complex and driven man. \n After Frank Hurley's death, his personal collection of negatives,\nlantern slides, transparencies, prints, diaries scrapbooks and papers was\nacquired by the National Library of Australia and has been used widely in the\nevocative images of this book. \n Hurley believed in his work and was pleased with his vocation, summing\nup his life in the following way: \n\n I\nhave lived a life that suited me best I\ntook risks and never regretted them If I could start\nagain, I would so everything in the same way","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48970957750491,"sku":"9780642279330-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/538a8784-cfb3-4f79-824b-e3c8d76fa59f.jpg?v=1783935800","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780642279330-secondhand-frank-hurley-a-photographers-life","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}