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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.
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.
There is a small amount of text at the front of the book, which is moderately interesting. It contains a description of how to take these pictures for yourself, if you'd like to; and a classification of the kinds of snowflake and other ice forms depicted here. The bulk of the book, however, is made up of well over two thousand black and white photographs, the vast majority of them of single snowflakes. You can get an idea of what they look like by clicking on Amazon's image of the cover picture, above; in the book, the images are white on black. You may also want to visit snowflakebentley.com, which contains more examples, and more information about Bentley himself (there is almost none in this book). In most or all cases, Bentley went to the trouble of making a duplicate negative of each snowflake and then cutting out, by hand, the finely detailed image, so that the background to the picture would be pure black.
The results are spectacular. The snowflakes are ethereally beautiful, and the variety is just stunning. However, in case it's not clear from what I've said so far, this is a contemplative book. It's not a book to read: it's a book to browse through, put away, and get out again another snowy day. Children will like it, but just to glance at, not to go through steadily.
Recommended.
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