Thesiger, Wilfred
[Photographer];
Sella, Vittorio
[Photographer]
;
Härtl, Roger
[Editor];
Breashears, David
[Contributor];
Breashears, David
[Writer of added text]The Grolier Club
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Media type:
Book;
Still Image;
Exhibition Catalogue;
Illustrated Book
Title:
Photographs at the edge
:
Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger
Contains:
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.
Footnote:
"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
Description:
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)