Following on from yesterday’s Mallory / Irvine post, comes this (again from NPR’s Picture Show): An Alpine Adventurer And His Mountaintop Darkroom. "If there were a Venn diagram of the meticulous Ansel Adams and the audacious mountaineer George Mallory, the overlap would be a somewhat obscure Italian named Vittorio Sella. Born in 1859, Sella was one of the most brazen Alpinists of his time; he was the first, for example, to do a winter climb of the Matterhorn. But Sella also inherited a fascination with photography; his father had penned the first treatise on photography in Italy. And as the master of a highly specified niche, Sella might now be considered the grandfather of adventure photography. Still, it’s easy to take his photographs for granted…” Robert CattoAugust 10, 2010Photography, Mallory, Irvine, Mountaineering, Mountains, Vittorio SellaComment Facebook0 Twitter 0 Likes