Snowflakes in Photographs (Dover Pictorial Archive) [Paperback]

W. A. Bentley (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dover Pictorial Archive | Publication Date: September 18, 2000

Remarkable revelations of nature's diversity, revealed in hundreds of snowflake images taken by American photographer Bentley during a 50-year period. Over 850 illustrations of snow crystals, with no two designs exactly alike, will inspire artists, designers, and craftspeople in search of extraordinary patterns for textiles, wallpaper, and other creative projects.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (September 18, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486412539
• ISBN-13: 978-0486412535
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #11 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > History
  • #13 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Nature & Wildlife
  • #25 in Books > Arts & Photography > Individual Artists

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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Snowflakes in Photographs" just a dusting compared to "Snow Crystals", July 21, 2005

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J. Wingard "The Music Maven" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snowflakes in Photographs (Dover Pictorial Archive) (Paperback)

"Snowflakes in Photographs" is a beautiful book with some history on Bentley and his photography; featuring stunning black and white photographs of snowflakes. Ironically however, the book "Snow Crystals" (also published by Dover) contains a great deal more text and more than twice the number of photographs than this book "Snowflakes in Photographs". I bought the two books at the same time thinking that other one focused more on Bentley and this one focused more on the pictures but it was a mistake. This is a case of "you get what you pay for" and the only reason to buy this one is that it is a bit cheaper than the other. On it's own, this book is still a smaller but nice collection of photographs without much 'text' support.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A collection of snowflake photographs, August 25, 2005

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This review is from: Snowflakes in Photographs (Dover Pictorial Archive) (Paperback)

This is basically a 72 page book with b/w photos of snowflakes. With 12 crystals on each page it has quite a varied collection of snowflakes.It is not a coffee table book - but a great reference book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Know What You Want & Why, December 22, 2007

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A. Karlsson "AKWindsong" (Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snowflakes in Photographs (Dover Pictorial Archive) (Paperback)

This book about lived up to my expectations -- which wouldn't make it worth it for everybody. In our case, we were doing a unit study on snowflakes and we covered Bentley's biography (from children's picture books for the young ones to more complete adult biographies for the older) and the point of this book for us was simply to see what it was that he did. I explained to my first grader that the large camera he had was also very young in terms of the history of photography and that what he accomplished was marvelous for his time. I also explained that today's equipment is able to do so much more. We turned to Libbrecht'sThe Snowflake-- being from Caltech he's probably a good one to take up the cause and the photos are incredible. My first grader loved them so much that we ended up getting the calendar, Snowflakes 2008 Calendar: Featuring the amazing micro-photography of Kenneth Libbrecht (Calendar). The high school student was more interested in the text, and I loved both.

Since I was familiar with Bentley's photos I knew I was buying this one for historical interest to go along with the biographies and not for anything more -- therefore, I didn't experience any disappointment for it perhaps not being as good as other books mentioned.