Wildlife Photography (Adirondack Museum)

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About Wildlife Photography (Adirondack Museum)

In 2011 the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York will open the new exhibit "Night Vision: The Wildlife Photography of Hobart V. Roberts." In celebration of "Night Vision" the Adirondack Museum invites you to share your photographs of wildlife and nature with us!

Before motion-sensors, in-fared, and mega pixels, before digital trail cameras there was Hobart Roberts. Hobart Vosburgh Roberts (1874-1959) was one of the nation’s most recognized amateur wildlife photographers in the first decades of the 20th century.

Roberts developed ingenious techniques for capturing birds and animals on film in their natural habitats. Most notably, the Utica, N.Y. native was one of a small group of amateur photographers who pioneered photographing animals at night.

Roberts’ images were made with stealth, patience, trip wires, and magnesium flash. His work was published in "Audubon Magazine," "Country Life," "Modern Photography," and "The National Geographic Magazine." Famed photographer Edward Steichen selected Roberts’ work for inclusion in U.S. Camera 1940, along with images by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Eliot Porter.

“Night Vision” will feature approximately 35 original large-format Roberts’ photographs of Adirondack wildlife. Hobart Roberts’ cameras, equipment, colored lithographic prints, hand-colored transparencies, published works, and his many awards will also be exhibited.

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