FACE TO FACE POLAR PORTRAITS

Huw Lewis-Jones

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Conway Maritime Press
24 August 2016

Photographs: collections; Travel & holiday; Expeditions

A lavish account of pioneering polar photography and modern portraiture, Face to Face brings together in a single volume both rare, unpublished treasures from the historic collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge, alongside cutting-edge modern imagery from expedition photographer Martin Hartley.

The first book to examine the history and role of polar exploration photography, Face to Face is a unique project of unsurpassed quality. Face to Face features the very first polar photographs, the first portraits of explorers, some of the earliest photographs of the Inuit, the first polar photographs to appear in a book, and rare images never before published from many of the Heroic-Age Antarctic expeditions. Almost all the historic imagery - daguerreotypes, magic lantern slides, glass plate negatives and images from private albums - that have been rediscovered during research for this book have never been before the public eye. Alongside fifty of the world’s finest historic polar portraits from the SPRI collections are fifty modern-day images by leading expedition photographer Martin Hartley, who has captured men and women of many nations, exploring, working, and living in the Polar Regions today.

In addition to this remarkable collection is a foreword written by respected adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, two fascinating essays examining polar photography ‘then’ and ‘now’ by polar historian Dr Huw Lewis-Jones; and an afterword by the best-selling author Hugh Brody. Polar Portraits is the first volume in the Face to Face series.

By: Huw Lewis-Jones
Imprint: Conway Maritime Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 220mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1.678kg
ISBN: 9781844860999
ISBN 10: 184486099X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 24 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Huw Lewis-Jones is a historian and former Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Polar Portraits and Ocean Portraits in Conway's Face to Face series. Formerly Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, and Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, London, Huw is also a consultant within media and broadcasting and an expert in maritime and polar exploration history.

Reviews for FACE TO FACE POLAR PORTRAITS

Picture Book of the Year ... an evocative record of men and, latterly women who ventured, fur-clad, into the frozen wastes ... Who says the age of heroism is dead? * The Observer * .. the greatest polar portraits of all time ... 'Face to Face' proves that though temperatures may rise and gear improve, the hardened look of a wind-worn face will never change. --National Geographic Adventure * National Geographic Adventure * One of the most stunning books of polar photography in recent times ... The portraits are flanked by terrific essays from Huw Lewis-Jones and Hugh Brody, offering insights on the state of photography in the pioneering days of polar exploration as well as how we photograph expeditions in the modern world. * The Explorer's Journal *