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PHOTOGRAPHER

Frank Hurley

1885 - 1962

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James Francis "Frank" Hurley (15 October 1885 – 16 January 1962) was an Australian photographer and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces during both world wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Hurley has received more than 336,605 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Hurley is the 115th most popular photographer (down from 88th in 2019), the 239th most popular biography from Australia (down from 200th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Photographer.

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  • 340k

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  • 43.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Frank Hurley ranks 115 out of 105Before him are Mick Rock, Karl Struss, Rineke Dijkstra, Sanja Iveković, Mary Ellen Mark, and David LaChapelle. After him are Sean Flynn, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Allan Warren, Fernando Pereira, Toni Frissell, and Clarence Hudson White.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Frank Hurley ranks 203Before him are Tim Ahearne, Charles Henry Bartlett, Roque González Garza, Georgina de Albuquerque, Enrico Mizzi, and Herbert Stothart. After him are Karel Hartmann, Burton Downing, Leonard Peterson, Stith Thompson, Robert Liottel, and C. J. Hambro. Among people deceased in 1962, Frank Hurley ranks 166Before him are Snub Pollard, Georgina de Albuquerque, Jean Amrouche, Robinson Jeffers, Karen Lachmann, and Axel Nordlander. After him are Ron Flockhart, Benny Paret, William Clothier, Louis Abell, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, and Pontus Hanson.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Frank Hurley ranks 239 out of 925Before him are Mary MacKillop (1842), Grafton Elliot Smith (1871), Michael Jeffery (1937), Frank Sedgman (1927), Cadel Evans (1977), and Beryl Penrose (1930). After him are Lleyton Hewitt (1981), Walter Frederick Gale (1865), Markus Zusak (1975), Frank Gardner (1931), David Gulpilil (1953), and Melissa George (1976).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Australia

Among photographers born in Australia, Frank Hurley ranks 1