A Winter Gallery – American Museum of Photography (SM)

A Winter Gallery – American Museum of Photography (SM)

 

 

 



For many of us, Winter is a perfect season for staying indoors and looking at photographs. But it’s also a time of year with wonderful picturesque qualities– flying snowflakes swirling in the air and icy trees giving off a crystalline glint. Because early techniques made it especially difficult to photograph outdoors in cold weather, photographers began creating elaborate winter portraits inside their studios–eventually adding special effects that gave the appearance of snowflakes. This gallery contains a brief selection of winter images, showing the season at its most beautiful and most biting.



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L.O. Moore (Harrison, Michigan)
Michigan Logging Scene with Snow Effect
Collodion silver (?) print circa 1890, 4.75 x 7.75 inches

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Unidentified Studio (Possibly Notman & Fraser, Toronto, Ontario)
Winter Sports
Albumen Print, approximately 7 x 9 inches, circa 1885
Greenleaf Studio (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Boy with Toboggan and Snow Effect
Albumen Print Cabinet Card, 1888

Well G. Singhi (active 1860s-1870s, Binghamton, New York) 
A Winter Scene
Albumen Print, 4 x 6.2 inches, circa 1874

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Caswell & Davy (William Caswell [d. 1870] and William Henry Davy [1844-1936] Duluth, Minnesota)
Winter Sportsmen with Snow Shoes
Albumen Print Carte de Visite, circa 1875

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George Fiske (U.S., 1835 – 1918)
“Distant View of the Domes (Winter Version)”
Albumen print, 5 x 8 inches, circa 1884

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Fred Payne Clatworthy (U.S., 1875-1953)
Navajo Men on Horseback in Snow
Autochrome circa 1915, 5 x 7 inches

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Unidentified Photographer
A City Snowstorm
Silver Print, 4.6 x 7.5 inches, circa 1910

 

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