IMAGE IS FOR YOUR ONE-TIME EXCLUSIVE USE ONLY AS A TIE-IN WITH THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION. NO SALES, NO TRANSFERS.  Herbert Ponting / National Geographic Society / Steven Kasher Gallery   Self Portrait, Antarctica, 1911-1912. Photographer Herbert Ponting poses by a movie camera and tripod. Ponting, considered the father of polar photography, spent 14 months along Antarctica's Cape Evan with Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition team. Unpublished photograph from the National Geographic archive.
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