Whale Bones, South Georgia, Antarctica
Artist
Joan Myers
(American, born 1944)
Printer
Wendy Young
(American, born 1963)
Date2001 (printed 2017)
MediumPigment print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/4 × 22 in. (36.2 × 55.9 cm)
Support: 16 3/4 × 24 15/16 in. (42.5 × 63.3 cm)
Support: 16 3/4 × 24 15/16 in. (42.5 × 63.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Joan Myers, 2017
Object number2017.5.19
DescriptionComposition is dominated by large whale bone thrusting from background into foreground, left to right. Other bones visible in middle ground at right and overall ground cover of gravel.eMuseum Notes
Not
everyone who visits Antarctica gets out alive. In addition to her pictures of
the landscape, the researchers, and the animal life of Antarctica, Myers also
photographed the abandoned hut of the British explorer Robert F. Scott. Here,
she also photographs the place where a massive whale met its end, animating one
of its bones by framing her image so that it juts dramatically toward us in a
reminder of its past vitality.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- landscapes (environments)
- deserts
- polar climate
- freezing
- cold
- science
- colonization
