First Over Everest

Title

First Over Everest

Description

First Over Everest: The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933 brings together the technologies of aviation and photography to exert a sense of control over a sublime landscape. The book’s photographic illustrations demonstrate photography’s usefulness for circulating knowledge. At the same time, the variety of ways the photographs are manipulated within the book's pages suggest an effort to experiment with methods of producing meaning with photographic images. Examine the book’s different forms of photography, and consider which ones are most useful for circulating knowledge. 

A full scan of the book is available through the Internet Archive.

People

photographer unknown

Date

1933
23.5 x 15.5 cm
DS 486 E8 H84

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tp and frontis 72dpi.jpg
flying south 72dpi.jpg
flying south from everest 72dpi.jpg
vertical photograph 72dpi.jpg
photographic composition 72dpi.jpg
aerial photos 72dpi.jpg
p22 3D spread 72dpi.jpg
stereoviewing.jpeg
gif a cockpit spread with tissue 72dpi.jpg
gif a cockpit spread tissue removed 72dpi.jpg
chief observer 72dpi.jpg

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Citation

photographer unknown, “First Over Everest,” Bruce Peel Special Collections Library Online Exhibits, accessed March 28, 2024, https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/items/show/3149.

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