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 ...

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 ...

The images were made by English amateur botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871 ... of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, which is thought to be the first book illustrated entirely ...

cyanotype | Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations When Anna Atkins finished the first part of her book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype ...

A Victorian woman named Anna Atkins conjured them using an early photographic technique called cyanotype. Her effort represents “the first realistic attempt to apply photography to the complex task of ...

Some of the most famous and influential cyanotypes were made by Anna Atkins, an English botanist who leveraged the technique to publish what is widely regarded as the first photographic ...

Anna Atkins ... Atkins portrayed the aquatic organisms as ethereal tufts and tendrils floating over vibrant blue backgrounds. She is widely recognized as the world’s first female photographer ...

Lang assumed they stood for “Anonymous Amateur” but in fact they stood for Anna Atkins. What Lang held in his ... 398 plates and 14 pages of text, all cyanotype reproductions. British Algae is the ...

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 ...