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 ...

Cyanotype Impressions. No author name was given, just, hidden away, the initials “AA”. Lang assumed they stood for “Anonymous Amateur” but in fact they stood for Anna Atkins. What Lang held in his ...

Anna Atkins is ... This was a cyanotype — a new way to print photographs permanently. Herschel primarily used cyanotypes to copy notes, but when Atkins heard about the technique, she leapt ...

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 ...

THESE beautifully detailed images show the remarkable legacy of Anna Atkins, a 19th-century botanist who left her stamp on science and photography with her signature “cyanotype” prints.

The images were made by English amateur botanist and photographer Anna Atkins ... to the library. Atkins is also the author of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, which is ...

Hadley Holliday's cyanotypes at Acme gallery must have Anna Atkins not turning but dancing in her grave, reveling in the beauty and ingenuity her legacy has wrought. Atkins pioneered use of the ...