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Snow Crystals (Dover Photography Collections)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #82785 in Books
- Published on: 2000-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 226 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
Offers numerous photographs of snowflakes and dewdrops with descriptions of their characteristics and methods of photography.
Customer Reviews
A Magical Book
I first came across this book in about 1977 when I was living in Oxford. Unfortunately I had to take it back to the public library when I moved and have been trying to find it again, on and off, for the last 25 years.
The short introductary essay makes for fascinating reading and one can only admire the perseverance of Mr Bently! It's difficult to describe just how beautiful these photos are - not just snow crystals, but frost on window panes, rime, sleet and hail.
Although the suggested audience is textile designers, artists and other professionals, you really don't need to have a reason to buy this book except that it one of the most amazing and enchanting books of photographs ever published.
THE unique photographic catalogue of snowflake crystals.
There is little reading matter here! This is a book of photographs, and other than a short preface and sleeve notes, the book has one chapter. The scientific explanations of snow formation and the photographic methods described are informative and interesting, although written in fairly scientific language. Science and photography have moved on somewhat since 1931, but the book is published unaltered, so this section is of historical interest as well.
202 white - on - black plates carrying nearly 2500 photographs make up the rest of the book, which is printed on good quality paper, securely bound. For anyone wishing to use snowflake patterns for design or study, this must be the essential reference. Furthermore the individual photographs are copyright-free, so that up to ten may be used without fees, permission or acknowledgement.
The stated aim of the book is to ensure that the work of Mr. Bentley should be preserved and made available to all. You have to admire the dedication of the man who spent so many winters collecting and photographing this record of one of the minute wonders of nature. This book is a tribute to his work, and the work is his gift to us.
