VITTORIO SELLA. Kabru (Telephotograph) Near Pamionchi, 1899, Sella number HS 183, 7.2x9.4" collodion print, printed 1901, mounted on 10x12" heavy brown board. Embossed with Vittorio Sella stamp in lower right of print. Inscribed in black ink mount recto: Kabru, telephotograph at a distance of 32 km.). Inscribed in pencil mount recto: 183 / HS 183.

Ansel Adams made images he called telephotographs in the Sierra Nevadas in the 1920s.

The 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.

Ansel Adams paid tribute to Sella's greatness in a 1946 article for the Sierra Club Bulletin when he wrote, "with Sella's sensitive insight and response the magnificence of mountains is distilled into a high order of expression."

Vittorio Sella (1859-1943) was the leading large-format mountaineering photographer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, renowned for his spectacular high-altitude photographs of glacial floes, peaks, and valleys. Sella traveled the world, photographing in the European Alps, the Caucasus, Mt. Saint Elias (Alaska Yukon Border), and the Himalayan Sikkim. In the early 1900s he photographed mountains in the African Ruwanzari and the Himalayan Karakoram.

Very Good: Creases in print, minor wear and edge and corner wear, dirty. Mount has corner and edge wear, dirt. Mount verso has tape marks.