Book

Sella, Vittorio, 1859-1943.

Summit : Vittorio Sella : mountaineer and photographer : the years 1879-1909 / essays by Ansel Adams [and others].

1st ed.

New York : Aperture, 1999.

143 pages : illustrations (some folded) ; 32 cm

"Weighed down by heavy, nineteenth-century camera equipment, Vittorio Sella climbed some of the world's most mysterious, perilous peaks and photographed them, many for the first time. Climbers today still use Sella's pictures to map out routes and to better comprehend the challenges in store." "Through Sella's images, we witness the grandeur of the Alps, the Caucasus, the Saint Elias Range in Alaska, the Ruwenzori in Africa, and the Himalayas. Sella's portfolio of K2 in the western Himalayas is the definitive photographic study of this mountain, considered to be the world's most difficult and dangerous to climb. His dazzling photographic documentation of these mountains had no predecessors and has few, if any, successors."--Jacket.

Sella, Vittorio, 1859-1943 -- Exhibitions.

Photography of mountains -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.

Mount Holyoke College. Art Museum.

New York School of Interior Design. Gallery.

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

Exhibition: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, January 25-March 10, 2000; Gallery of the New York School of Interior Design, New York, New York, April 12-May 27, 2000; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Albert, Canada, September 14-November 26, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140).

Foreword / by David Brower -- Vittorio Sella / by Ansel Adams -- Under the influence : Vittorio Sella and the third generation of mountaineers / by Greg Child -- ch. 1. The Alps, 1879-1895 / by Paul Kallmes -- ch. 2. The Caucasus, Russia, 1889, 1890, 1896 / by Paul Kallmes -- ch. 3. Mount Saint Elias, Alaska, 1897 / by Paul Kallmes -- ch. 4. Kangchenjunga, Sikkim, and Nepal, 1899 / by Paul Kallmes -- ch. 5. Ruwenzori, Uganda, 1906 / by Paul Kallmes -- ch. 6. Karakoram, Western Himalayas, 1909 / by Paul Kallmes -- Picturing the sublime : the photographs of Vittorio Sella / by Wendy M. Watson -- Timeline : the life of Vittorio Sella.

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