The Spectacle of “Nothing”: the image, material, and object in a photographic ecosystem of Antarctica

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Fig. 1. Lieut. Evans observing an occultation of Jupiter. 8 June 1911. Ref. P2005/5/442. Photographer: Herbert G Ponting. Flashlight photograph. Print from orthochromatic glass plate negative. Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, with permission

Fig. 2. (a).(left) The photograph is of Scott Island. Ref. P49473. Photographer: William Colbeck/J. D. Morrison. Orthochromatic glass plate negative. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. (b). (right) The same photograph of Scott Island was formatted and framed to the smaller dimensions of a magic lantern slide, Ref. HP1980/170. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Fig. 3. Scott Island and Haggitt’s Pillar, printed in William Colbeck, “Observations on the Antarctic Sea-Ice”, The Geographical Journal, vol.25, no.4 (1905), pp. 401–405. Copyright Clearance Centre and RGS-IBG, with permission

Fig. 4. Ice Blink over the Barrier 3 January 1911. Ref. P2005/5/1540. Photographer: Herbert G Ponting. Photographic print from orthochromatic glass plate photographic negative. Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, with permission