English botanical artist, collector and photographer Anna Atkins was the first person to illustrate a book with photographic images. Her nineteenth-century cyanotypes used light exposure and a simple ...

Nearly two centuries ago, botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins‘s influential book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions, wowed readers with its scientific power and ...

In 1842, Anna Atkins ... the alga. Atkins learned the cyanotype process directly from its inventor, neighbor and family friend Sir John Frederick William Herschel. Within a year of beginning to ...

In artist Mandy Barker's new book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype imperfections , she uses the same technique as the botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins to draw attention to the ...