![]() ![]() The deep blue snow shadows and fuzzy glow of falling flakes in Azarian’s skillfully carved, hand-tinted woodcuts recreate the cold winter wonderland of “Snowflake” Bentley’s Vermont. ![]() Martin chronicles Bentley’s life and his obsession in a main, poetic text, but provides additional facts in careful, snowflake-strewn sidebars. As an adult, he gave slide shows of his work, and when he was 66, a book was published of his photos-a book that is still in use today. From then on, despite his neighbors’ amusement, he took hundreds of portraits of snowflakes. Wilson Bentley (1865-1931) was fascinated by snow, in childhood and adulthood, and, practically speaking, is the one who “discovered” snow crystals, by photographing them in all their variation.Īs a youngster, he was so taken with these little six-sided ice crystals that his parents scraped together their savings to buy him a camera with a microscope. ![]()
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