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 ...

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 ...

In 1842, Anna Atkins, a 43-year-old amateur botanist from Kent, England, began experimenting with a brand-new photographic process called cyanotype or blueprint. With the utmost care and under minimal ...

Nearly two centuries ago, botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins‘s influential book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions ... to replicate Atkins’s work, with small ...

In 1842, Anna Atkins, a 43-year-old amateur botanist from Kent, England, began experimenting with a brand-new photographic process called cyanotype or blue-print. Amid cuts to federal funding, US ...