© Fondazione Sella. Courtesy Panopticon Gallery/Decaneas Archive, Boston, MA.

Pictured here is Vittorio Sella on the Highest Peak of the Rouies as seen from the Chardon Glacier, August 3, 1888. Vittorio Sella’s home was in Biella, Italy – he began his career in 1879, climbing and photographing the nearby Alps with his 11×14 large-format field camera and wet plate collodion glass negatives. The great Italian photographer passed away on this day, August 12, in 1943.

The exhibit, Heights of Observation: The Photographs of Vittorio Sella (1859 – 1943), will open on September 9 and run though November 8 at the Panopticon Gallery.

More from the gallery here.

© Thomas Beyerlein. Courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2010.

Thomas Beyerlein’s “The Art of Movement” image series was awarded 2nd place in the Sport category of the 2010 Sony World Photography Awards. See more from the winners gallery here.

© Roger Ballen. Bite, 2007. Image Courtesy of the Gagosian gallery.

This photograph is only one of the most wildly striking images from Roger Ballen’s book, Boarding House. See more of his work here.

© David Leventi. Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, Romania, 2007

An exhibition of David Leventi‘s photographs, Opera Houses, is opening at the Arthur Roger Gallery on August 7th and will run through September 11th, 2010.

“The project, Bjoerling’s Larynx: World Famous Opera Houses, is titled after Jussi Björling, a Swedish operatic tenor and arguably the best singer of the century – known for his technique, feeling and the range of his voice. Bjoerling debuted at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and eventually became a principal at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. These two spaces – and the others that I have photographed thus far – are the spaces in which my grandfather, Anton Gutman, never got the chance to perform. Gutman was a cantor trained right after World War II by Helge Rosvaenge, a famous Danish operatic tenor who sang regularly with the State Operas in Berlin and Vienna. While Gutman was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in the Soviet Union, he performed for prisoners and officers. Nearly a half-century later, I grew up listening to him sing while he walked around our living room. As the son of two architects, I experience an almost religious feeling walking into a grand space such as an opera house.” – David Leventi

To view more of Leventi’s Opera Houses click here.

All Images © Nicolai Howalt

Car Crash Studies is a thought provoking photographic study of cars that have been involved in severe and potentially fatal accidents.

See more of Nicolai Howalt’s work here.

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