Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton during the expedition, about 1915 Hurley's portrait of the leader in a heavy knitted sweater and suspenders, with a fur across his lap. Shackleton used it in South, his own account of the expedition, under the plain caption The Leader. Next to the formal studio portraits of his earlier fame, this one shows the working version of the man the crew followed across the ice: weathered, direct and dressed for the cold.