Laton Alton Huffman

Laton Alton Huffman (October 31, 1854 – February 28, 1931) was an American photographer^[1] 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.^[2] In 1976, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.^[3]

Huffman ca. 1880.

Sweat lodge, Sioux Village by Huffman, taken between 1896 and 1905. This photograph is one half of a stereograph.

Thanksgiving 1881 E.H.M.C. stereograph by Huffman, taken between 1870 and 1920

The war chief Pretty Nose, 1879, collotype (restored)

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.^[1]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: 1 print (as of November 2018)^[4]
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 22 prints (acquired 1975)^[5]