equatorjournal: Emil Schulthess, Midnight, Frozen Ross Sea, 1958. “Swiss photographer Emil Schulthes
equatorjournal: Emil Schulthess, Midnight, Frozen Ross Sea, 1958. “Swiss photographer Emil Schulthess, born in 1913, has set off on many journeys into the furthermost reaches of the Earth on the trails of explorers such as the Antarctic pioneer Robert Scott. Driven by the urge to bring the last empty spaces on the map “into the light”. He was an adventurer, and always a scientist, but also an artist. Like every photographer he was fascinated by light. Schulthess, however, cultivated almost an obsession with its natural source: the sun. Whether the motif be the sun itself, or only its rays, he has a penchant for using the fireball as a stylistic device…“https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIkNLmgEQB/?igshid=wshmv2y1jbn3 -- source link