VITTORIO SELLA. Rwenzori From Grauer Rock [Edward Peak], 1906, Sella number R 72-77. 11.7x67.2" gelatin silver prints, 6 panels c. 1907 on 82.5x12.8" heavy brown paper.

This sale of lots from this auction will directly benefit the Appalachian Mountain Club Trails Protection Fund; Conservation Research and Climate Action; and the Modernization and Preservation of the AMC Library and Archives.

Multi-plate panoramic photographs were considered Sella's greatest feet as a photographer. Beyond his mastery of making high altitude negatives and low altitude exhibition prints was the exposure of multiple prints on the same plane, in focus making to 360-degree views.

Many of the glaciers photographed here have since melted.
Vittorio Sella was born in 1859 into a wealthy, politically influential family in the Piedmont town of Biella, Italy. As a boy his classical studies included Greek and Latin along with painting lessons, in which he excelled. He was introduced to the recently invented art of photography by his father, a textile mill owner named Venanzio Giuseppe Sella and his uncle, Quintino Sella, a famous Italian minister of finance, both of whom were enthusiasts of the new art. In 1856, Venanzio published a treatise on photography that was translated into German and French and was included in Roret's Encyclopedic. Quintino Sella not only founded the still active Italian Alpine Club, but also took his young nephew hiking through the Alps as he taught him to love the mountains.

Very good. Dirty.