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Eckenstein Oskar

The entire photographic corpus, consisting of 200 pictures on stereoscopic plates, fully documents the reconnaissance trip to K2 in 1902, as well as a visit to Vittorio Sella’s house in Biella. The photographs were taken by the Swiss doctor Jules Jacot Guillarmond (1868-1925).

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Ferrari Agostino

The Ferrari collection consists of almost 40,000 pictures collected during the life of the Turinese doctor Agostino Ferrari, a leading member of the Italian Alpine Club, promoter and founder of the ‘Italian Group of Mountain Writers’.

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Ferrarotti Sergio

Sergio Ferrarotti specialised in black and white landscapes and portraits and experimented with reworking and recomposing his pictures using photomontage and collages. His “puppet theatre” series is famous.

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Gallino Giuseppe

An amateur photographer active in the first half of the 1900’s, Giuseppe Gallino is particularly important for his production of over two hundred colour photos taken after 1911, when Auguste Lumière came to Turin to illustrate a new technique and consequently to sell the autochrome plates produced by his firm.

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Gallo Emilio

Textile industrialist, explorer and mountaineer, Emilio Gallo was a keen amateur photographer. He created his album Album del Biellese in 1891 and shortly afterwards began to take part in photographic exhibitions in Turin, in 1893 and 1900, Groningen, 1893, Hamburg and Berlin, 1895, where he won an award.

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Maggia Federico

The photographic material of Federico Maggia is a large and heterogenous collection. The Sella Foundation preserves all the equipment and cameras used by Maggia. The phototypes are of two different kinds: the plates created in his early period of photographic activity (1912-1932) and the films, prints and contact prints of the later period (1961-1985).

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Minoli Pietro

Besides working as a journalist, Pietro Minoli produced thousands of photographs fom the mid-1950’s onwards. As well as these pictures, the Sella Foundation conserves the lenses, cameras and the enlarger used by Pietro Minoli during his career.

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Biellesi nel mondo

The collection includes the pictures found and acquired by researchers and coordinated by V. Castronovo as part of the “Biellesi nel mondo” project promoted by the Gruppo Banca Sella begun in the 1980’s.

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Piacenza Mario

The Sella Foundation conserves all Mario Piacenza’s films but there are only a few prints of the period, most of which were made by Vittorio Sella and are conserved today at the Museum of the Mountains in Turin.

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