Laton Alton Huffman
{{short description|American photographer}}
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Laton Alton Huffman (October 31, 1854 – February 28, 1931) was an American photographer{{cite web | url = http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1625/laton-alton-huffman-american-1854-1931/ | accessdate = 27 July 2015 | publisher = J. Paul Getty Museum | title = Laton Alton Huffman}} of Frontier 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 negatives.{{cite web | url =http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w65x4sz8|title=Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931|publisher=University of Virginia Social Networks and Archival Context| accessdate =July 27, 2015}} In 1976, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.{{cite web |title=Hall of Great Westerners |url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/hall-of-great-westerners/ |website=National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |accessdate=November 22, 2019}}
Publications with contributions by Huffman
- The Frontier Years: L.A. Huffman, Photographer of the Plains. New York: Henry Holt, 1955. {{OCLC|961787}}
- 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. {{ISBN|978-0878425143}}. Revised third edition.
- The Collotypes of L.A. Huffman: Montana Frontier Photographer. Helena, MT: Riverbend, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-60639-072-6}}. 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, San Francisco, CA: 1 print (as of November 2018){{cite web|accessdate=2018-11-26|title=Laton Alton Huffman|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Laton_Alton_Huffman|website=SFMOMA}}
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 22 prints (acquired 1975){{cite news|accessdate=2019-02-08|title=Laton Alton Huffman|newspaper=The Art Institute of Chicago |url=https://www.artic.edu/collection?artist_ids=Laton+Alton+Huffman}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.lahuffman.com Fan website by Gene and Bev Allen]
- {{Find a Grave|91104249|Laton Alton Huffman}}
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Category:Photographers from Iowa
Category:People from Winneshiek County, Iowa
Category:19th-century American photographers
Category:20th-century American photographers
Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:19th-century American male artists
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