Laton Alton Huffman
Illustration — Huffman ca. • Illustration — Sweat lodge, Sioux Village by Huffman, taken between 1896 and 1905. This photograph is one half of a stereograph. • Illustration — Thanksgiving 1881 E.H.M.C. stereograph by Huffman, taken between 1870 and 1920 • Illustration — The war chief Pretty Nose, 1879, collotype (restored) Laton Alton Huffman (October 31, 1854 – December 28, 1931) was an American photographer of Frontier and Native American life. Laton Alton Huffman was born in Winneshiek County, Iowa, he spent most of his life photographing the area around his Montana home.
Also recorded as L. A. Huffman
Laton Alton Huffman
- Born
- 1854 · Castalia.
- Died
- 1931 · Billings.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
- Fields
- photography · documentary photography
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Laton Alton Huffman, photographe, naquit en 1854 et mourut en 1931 à Billings, Montana.
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1854
Laton Alton Huffman was born on 31 October 1854.
1931
Laton Alton Huffman died on 28 December 1931.
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Having initially worked at Fort Keogh, he started to sell prints of his glass plate negatives. In 1976, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
The field of work recorded is photography and documentary photography. Places of work recorded in the authority are Montana. Work by Laton Alton Huffman is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Netherlands Photo Museum, National Museum of World Cultures and Wereldmuseum Rotterdam.
• The Frontier Years: L.A. Huffman, Photographer of the Plains. New York: Henry Holt, 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.
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Huffman's work is held in the following public collections: • Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT. • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: 1 print (as of November 2018) • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 22 prints (acquired 1975)
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