Milano, 1981, 1st edition. 239 pp, 168 plates, 3 panoramas. Quarto. Very well done larger format book on Sella's life and photos. Many of his best photos and panoramas are reproduced. Text in Italian. DJ, Near Fine in slipcase.
Vittorio Sella [1859 - 1943]
He was the Italian alpinist and photographer who accompanied the 1906 Abruzzi Rwenzori expedition and who was perhaps the greatest of all alpine photographers. It was Sella who first recorded the landscape, plants and people of the Rwenzori in extensive and intimate detail, and to whom we refer for clarity of the historical record and pure artistic beauty. It is particularly interesting to note how far the glaciers of the Rwenzori have receded since these photographs were taken, nearly 90 years ago.
