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In the case of Frank Hurley, the photographer accompanying Shackleton, I owe admiration not only for these virtues but for his dogged recording of the daily grind in the worst of circumstances; and to Herbert Ponting, Scott's photographer, I am in debt for his teaching me to see how sublime is Antarctica in all its awful terribility - he is, as it were, the John Martin of the Great White South.
Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011
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