An Italian photographer’s earliest images of the majestic Himalayas happymamay

Vittorio Sella was a pioneering Italian photographer, at the beginning of the twentieth century, mountain photography and the history of mountain climbing.

Its rare photos in favor of the Himalayas remain one of the most ever taken pictures.

A continuous new show in the Indian capital, Delhi, called Vitorio Sila: a photographer in the Himalayas brings the great life to capture Himalayas through his lens.

Under the patronage of the famous British explorer and author Hugh Thompson and organized by the Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), the show is likely to be one of the largest collection of Indian Sella opinions.

It features some of the oldest high pictures of Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, and K2, the second mountain in the world, captured more than a century ago.

It was born in Bella, a town known for the wool trade in northern Italy, Sella (1859-1930) made his first rise in the nearby Alps.

“Throughout his career, Silla benefited from his engineering and chemistry skills that the wool mills and his father taught him,” Tomson says.

By his twenties, he was mastering complex photographic techniques such as the Colodion process, allowing him to develop large coordination glass panels under harsh conditions.

His Panoramic photos, made of technical perfection, got a tribute all over the world.

The Sella’s Himalayan trip began in 1899 when he joined the British explorer Douglas Freshfield on an exploratory trip around Kanchenjunga.

Any phase of the mountain also included a penetration in Nepal, which was also a closed kingdom.

While the team’s climbing ambitions were thwarted due to uncompromising rain, Selda seized the opportunity to capture creative peaks of snow. He tried it indifferently with technology, as he tried to phone pictures of Kanchenjunga. He transferred his viewers to a world that has not touched time.

After a decade, Silaly reached new horizons – literally and artists – on an exploratory trip in 1909 to K2 with the Duke of Abuzi.

His pictures of the most difficult mountain in the world as evidence of its skill and flexibility. Carrying the camera that weighs about 30 kg, treacherous landscapes from the Sella Crisscripossed, creating images that define mountain imaging.

Jim Koran, author of the book K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain, calls Sella “Maybe the greatest mountain photographer … his name [is] Synonym for technical perfection and aesthetic refinement.

Sila was known for his extraordinary hardness, as he passed the Alps noticeable at a noticeable speed despite carrying heavy photographic equipment.

The temporary camera and shoes – heavier times from modern – are maintained at the Institute of Photography in Bella.

His clothes alone weighed more than 10 kg, while the camera equipment, including the Dalmaire, Traibud, and panels, added another 30 kg – more than the air luggage limits today.

On the K2 trip, Sella took about 250 official photos with the Ross & Co camera over four to five months; On Kanchenjunga, about 200, Thompson notes.

“According to modern digital standards, this number is not an unusual thing – and even in the last days of the analog film, it is equivalent to about eight rolls, what a photographer could have used in the seventies in one morning on one mountain – but when Sella was filming, it was This is a big number.

“This means huge care and thought that was given to each image, because he had a relatively few of the paintings he could launch.”

Years later, the famous Montenner photographer Angel Adams wrote that “the purity of Sila’s interpretations conveyed the spectator to religious awe.”

Photography came up with risks – many of the most ambitious shots were destroyed in Sila when wet conditions caused adherence to tissue negatives.

However, those who survived reveal a brilliant eye, Tomson notes.

“Sella was one of the first to realize how the tracks in the snow are a large part of the composition like the climbers they made.”

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