It's Snowing!!!

PRESCOTT ADAMSON

"Midst Stream and Smoke"

CW No. 5, 1904
Camera Work photogravure
ca. 1904, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4.

ANONYMOUS

Winter Landscape

ca. 1900
cyanotype
4 3/4 x 6 3/4.

ANONYMOUS

Winter Landscape

ca. 1870s, albumen print, ca. 1870s
12 11/16 x 16 1/8.

ANONYMOUS

Bridge Over River

ca. 1870s, albumen print, ca. 1870s
8 7/8 x 11.

BISSON FRERES

"Alpine View"

ca. 1860, albumen print, ca. 1860s
11 1/2 x 17, Bisson Freres stamp on
l.r. corner of mount under the photograph.

LOUIS JOSEPH DEFLUBE

Cottage in Winter

ca. 1860s
albumen print
7 11/16 x 9 3/4.

RAYMOND HANSON

Untitled, Winter Landscape

ca. 1920s, bromoil print
10 3/8 x 13 3/4.

VACLAV JIRU

Street Scene, Prague, Czechoslovakia

ca. 1930s, silver print, ca. 1930s
8 7/8 x 6 15/16.

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It's Snowing!!!

There is nothing more beautiful than an early morning after a snowfall, with the soft powdery snow blanketing each branch of a tree, and crystal clear icicles dangling from rooftops. These images, when captured in a photograph, become timeless portrayals of winter.

This is never so evident as in Emil Mayer's "Tree Branch in Snow, Austria" or William Mullins' "Winter Landscape". Both images draw the viewer into the scene with their soft elegant depictions of a snowy wintery day. While Mullins shows a vast wide open field with trees and reeds, Mayer's close-up of a tree with it's right arm extended out and downward towards the snow covered ground, gives one the sense that the tree is grasping for something beyond it's reach.

While these photographs portray a feeling of peace and serenity in their own quiet way, the images of massive snow covered mountain ranges by Bisson Freres and Hope Macey also capture a tranquil quality. When one is confronted by Bisson Freres "Alpine View" with its sharply pointed peaks glistening with snow, one cannot help but to get lost in the stillness of the mountaintop.

Like landscapes, city street scenes in the winter can be equally breathtaking. Take for instance Alfred Stieglitz's "Snapshot from my Window, New York" or "Winter Fifth Ave." Both of these photographs depict a blustery stormy day that makes one acutely aware of the beauty and perils of winter.

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