Story: Vt. man's vintage snowflake photos for sale in NYC

[bmattock]

http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/1697889.html

Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century photography of more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes - no two alike.

Bentley, also known as The Snowflake Man, was fascinated with snowflakes, and his observations and experimentation made him the first person to capture a single snowflake with a camera.

Starting Thursday, 26 of his images are for sale at the four-day American Antiques Show presented by the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Ten of the images are of snowflakes, which he called snow crystals, and are priced at $4,800 each. The others show winter scenes.

 

[FPjohn]

Snow Crystals (Dover photography collections)
by: W. A. Bentley, W. J. Humphreys

Bentley's Snowflakes CD-ROM and Book (Electronic Clip Art)
by: W. A. Bentley

From Dover

yours
FPJ

 

[gns]

A year or 2 ago, my kid came home from school with a children's book about Bentley.
I had never heard of him, but a short time later, we came across some of his pictures in a show at SFMOMA. It was sort of a cool connection when he saw them.

Gary