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拍品专文
The photograph from Ponting's 7 x 5 negative (no. 109. Beautiful broken ice, reflections and Terra Nova) was taken on 7 January 1911.
Alternatively titled 'Death of an Iceberg' by Ponting who describes the events surrounding taking the present photograph, firstly almost breaking through the melting ice with his sledge and photographic apparatus and then peering into the pool in the foreground of this image to see 'a dreaded killer again, in pursuit of its prey': 'During those midnight days, when others slept and only the night watch and I were awake, some of the most memorable of my Antarctic experiences befell me. It was in those 'night' hours, too, as the sun paraded round the southern heavens, that I secured some of the best of my Polar studies. One of these was 'The Death of an Iceberg' -- which represents a berg in the last stage of decay, from the action of the sun and currents.' (H.G. Ponting, The Great White South, London, 1924, p.69.)
Alternatively titled 'Death of an Iceberg' by Ponting who describes the events surrounding taking the present photograph, firstly almost breaking through the melting ice with his sledge and photographic apparatus and then peering into the pool in the foreground of this image to see 'a dreaded killer again, in pursuit of its prey': 'During those midnight days, when others slept and only the night watch and I were awake, some of the most memorable of my Antarctic experiences befell me. It was in those 'night' hours, too, as the sun paraded round the southern heavens, that I secured some of the best of my Polar studies. One of these was 'The Death of an Iceberg' -- which represents a berg in the last stage of decay, from the action of the sun and currents.' (H.G. Ponting, The Great White South, London, 1924, p.69.)