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Frank Hurley: The Man who Made History

A look at the life and work of photographer Frank Hurley, who captured some of the earliest images of the world's most remote places and accompanied Shackleton in Antartica.

A look at the life and work of photographer Frank Hurley, who captured some of the earliest images of the world's most remote places. The cinematographer on Ernest Shackleton's doomed Endurance expedition to the Antarctic, Hurley also photographed both World Wars and explored New Guinea. But today's experts believe some of his pictures to be elaborate fakes – was he a giant of photography or just a conjurer with a camera?

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Thu 9 Oct 2008 00:50

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