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Laton Alton Huffman (October 31, 1854 – February 28, 1931) was an American photographer of
Fan website by Gene and Bev Allen
* Photographers from Iowa People from Winneshiek County, Iowa 1854 births 1931 deaths 19th-century American photographers 19th-century male artists 20th-century American photographers 20th-century American male artists 19th-century American male artists {{US-photographer-stub
Laton Alton Huffman (October 31, 1854 – February 28, 1931) was an American photographer of Frontier
A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. A frontier can also be referred to as a "front". The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning "borderland"—the region of a country that fronts o ...
and Native American life. Born in Winneshiek County, Iowa, he spent most of his life photographing the area around his Montana home. Having initially worked at Fort Keogh, he started to sell prints of his glass plate
Photographic plates preceded photographic film as a capture medium in photography, and were still used in some communities up until the late 20th century. The light-sensitive emulsion of silver salts was coated on a glass plate, typically thin ...
negatives. In 1976, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners
The Hall of Great Westerners was established by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1958. Located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., the Hall was created to celebrate the contributions of more than 200 men and women of the American W ...
of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, with more than 28,000 American West, Western and Native Americans in the United States, American Indian art works and Artifact (archaeology), ar ...
.
Publications with contributions by Huffman
*''The Frontier Years: L.A. Huffman, Photographer of the Plains.'' New York:Henry Holt Henry Holt may refer to:
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, 1955.
*''Before Barbed Wire.''
*''L.A. Huffman: Photographer of the American West.'' By Larry Len Peterson and with photographs by Huffman.
**Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 2005.
**Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 2013. . Revised third edition.
*''The Collotypes of L.A. Huffman: Montana Frontier Photographer.'' Helena, MT: Riverbend, 2014. . By Gene and Bev Allen and with photographs by Huffman.
Collections
Huffman's work is held in the following public collections: * J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. *San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...
, San Francisco, CA: 1 print (as of November 2018)
*Art Institute of Chicago
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, Chicago, IL: 22 prints (acquired 1975)
References
External links
Fan website by Gene and Bev Allen
* Photographers from Iowa People from Winneshiek County, Iowa 1854 births 1931 deaths 19th-century American photographers 19th-century male artists 20th-century American photographers 20th-century American male artists 19th-century American male artists {{US-photographer-stub