The Snowflake Man of Vermont

A Readymag website designed by Pavel Kedich, presenting an article by Keith C. Heidorn about Wilson Bentley’s life and work. Pictures courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, text set in Suisse Int’l Book.

Keith C. Heidorn takes a look at the life and work of Wilson Bentley, a self-educated farmer from a small American town who, by combining a bellows camera with a microscope, managed to photograph the dizzyingly intricate and diverse structures of the snow crystal.