Herbert Ponting
Herbert Ponting Born in Salisbury in 1870, Ponting was raised and educated in Carlisle, Preston and Southport. A decade later - after running a California fruit ranch and working in mining - he was a…
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Herbert Ponting
Born in Salisbury in 1870, Ponting was raised and educated in Carlisle, Preston and Southport. A decade later - after running a California fruit ranch and working in mining - he was a professional photographer, known for stereoviews of America, Japan and other parts of Asia and for illustrated magazine articles.When Ponting returned to Britain in 1907, his Japanese and other photographs were exhibited and published widely. While working in a bank in Liverpool, Ponting bought his first Kodak compact camera.
Overnight Ponting's photographs became world famous. In 1909, while working on a memoir of Japan, he signed up for Scott's Terra Nova expedition - two years later, he was back in London, working on thousands of photographs and film footage of the expedition.In February 1913, the news broke that Scott and his South Pole companions had died. But in 1914, while Ponting