Mountain photographer

Vittorio Sella (1859-1943) was one of the leading photographers and mountaineers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the nephew of Quintino Sella, one of the founding members of the Italian Alpine Club (1863). He was as famous for his photography as for his climbing. Sella himself said he had decided to combine photography and mountaineering from 1880 onwards, and was only interested in the high regions of the Alps, as yet little explored and unphotographed - even though, as we have seen elsewhere articles, several pioneers had already taken photographs in the Alps. Sella took advantage of the ...