Photographs at the Edge: Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger
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Photographs at the Edge: Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger
W036744 | $65.00
Exhibition Catalog
Roger Hartl et al. Grolier Club, New York, 2022.
216 pp. (2 foldout). Well illustrated (chiefly b&w). 29 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9781605830988
An illustrated look at two early-twentieth-century explorers whose work took them to deserts and mountain peaks, coinciding with the rise of modern photography along the way. 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.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Great Britain ; Italy -- 1800-1900 ; 1900-1945 -- Photography --
Artist(s): Sella, Vittorio; Thesiger, Wilfred
W036744 | $65.00
Exhibition Catalog
Roger Hartl et al. Grolier Club, New York, 2022.
216 pp. (2 foldout). Well illustrated (chiefly b&w). 29 x 25 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9781605830988
An illustrated look at two early-twentieth-century explorers whose work took them to deserts and mountain peaks, coinciding with the rise of modern photography along the way. 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.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Great Britain ; Italy -- 1800-1900 ; 1900-1945 -- Photography --
Artist(s): Sella, Vittorio; Thesiger, Wilfred
