Photographs at the edge : Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger / Roger Härtl ; with contributions by David Breashears, Paolo Lazzarin, Alexander Maitland, Vanessa O'Brien, Paolo Pellegrin, Angelica Sella, Levison Wood.

TextPublisher: New York : The Grolier Club, [2022]Description: 215 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781605830988; 1605830984Subject(s): Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910-2003 -- Exhibitions | Sella, Vittorio, 1859-1943 -- Exhibitions | Sella, Vittorio, 1859-1943 | Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910-2003 | Photography of mountains -- Exhibitions | Photographie de montagnes -- Expositions | Photographie de montagnes -- Catalogues | Photography of mountainsGenre/Form: Catalogs | Exhibition catalogsDDC classification: 047.5

Contents:

Forward / Roger Härtl -- Documenting discovery / Paolo Pellegrin -- Vittorio Sella. Vittorio Sella, pioneer of mountain photography / Angelica Sella -- The high mountains of Vittorio Sella / Paolo Lazzarin -- The Abruzzi Ridge / Vanessa O'Brien -- Catalogue -- Wilfred Thesiger. A traveler's eye / Alexander Maitland -- Reflections of an explorer / Levison Wood -- Catalogue -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors to the catalogue.

Summary: Vittorio Sella (1859-1943) was the foremost mountaineering photographer of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, producing widely celebrated images of K2 and other famed peaks. Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) was a writer, photographer, and explorer, whose greatest journey took him across the Rub' al Khali, a vast desert encompassing much of the Arabian Peninsula. In his new book, Roger Hartl considers these two far-flung figures side by side, telling the stories of two influential explorers through their bibliographic and photographic work, and creating a tapestry where exploration, writing, and image-making all conjoin. As Hartl shows in this richly illustrated volume, the triumphs of Sella and Thesiger coincided with the end of a golden age of geographical exploration and with the rise of photography as we know it today.00Exhibition: The Grolier Club, New York, USA (03.03-14.05.2022).

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Alpine Club Map Collection	Alpine Club Library Oversized Collection	047.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	Donated by R Hartl		ACL24030001

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with Photographs at the edge : Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger, on view at the Grolier Club, New York, March 3-May 14, 2022" -- title page verso.

"Printed ... in an edition of 1,000 by Trifolio SRL, in Verona, Italy" -- colophon.

Vittorio Sella (1859-1943) was the foremost mountaineering photographer of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, producing widely celebrated images of K2 and other famed peaks. Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) was a writer, photographer, and explorer, whose greatest journey took him across the Rub' al Khali, a vast desert encompassing much of the Arabian Peninsula. In his new book, Roger Hartl considers these two far-flung figures side by side, telling the stories of two influential explorers through their bibliographic and photographic work, and creating a tapestry where exploration, writing, and image-making all conjoin. As Hartl shows in this richly illustrated volume, the triumphs of Sella and Thesiger coincided with the end of a golden age of geographical exploration and with the rise of photography as we know it today.00Exhibition: The Grolier Club, New York, USA (03.03-14.05.2022).

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